Posts Tagged ‘Unix
Allow Non-Admin users to Manage Printers
Apple added a "feature" to Leopard which restricts non administrator users from managing printers on their Macs. While this is desired behavior on a public machine such as a classroom, it is a problem for single user machines such as faculty, staff and 1:1 deployments.
Securing SSH on Mac OS X by limiting who can log in
This post will describe two different methods for securing SSH that work on both Tiger and Leopard (client or server). These tips can be done as needed on machines that will have ssh enabled, or as part of your deployment image(s). Personally, I make these changes to our images because if a machine is bound [...]
OS X as a workstation for UNIX admins
Here is an interesting article from a Unix SysAdmin explaining why he prefers to use a Mac for his day to day admining.
Bind to AD using Apple Remote Desktop
Need to bind a handful of Macs to Active Directory remotely? There are a couple scripts online already, including one from MacEnterprise and from Bombich. But I’ve never been able to get those to work when using with ARD. Either the AD plugin wasn’t activated or AD wasn’t added to the authentication path, etc. There’s [...]
