• Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    Macs in Enterprise Survey, etc.

    A couple of recent media items to note. The first is the Enterprise Desktop Alliance has released a new version of their annual Mac in the Enterprise survey. It can be found here: Apparently someone from CIO Magazine (one of the few that I read routinely) picked up on the release and did an article on it, which can be found here. While he agreed with many of the points from the survey he also seemed to be a little critical that integrating Macs into enterprise environments was all about TCO reduction. Some great points in both and whether you agree with the methodology or message of either, it’s still…

  • Mac OS X,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment

    New Tool For Hiding Users

    HideAUser is a little tool for hiding a user. Once run, the loginwindow of Mac OS X will not show the user(s) specified. For multiple users, simply type the short name of each seperated by a space. Then attempt to login and see if the list shows the user you indicated not to show. Click Here to Download HideAUser

  • Mac OS X,  Mass Deployment

    More repairPermissions

    Yesterday I looked at using diskutil to repair the permissions on a boot volume. You can also use diskutil to repair the permissions on a non-booted volume provided that there is a valid Mac OS X installation on that volume. To do so you would simply provide the path to that volume rather than to the blessed boot volume. For example, if the disk that we mentioned in the previous article were called Seldon and it was in a host booted to target disk mode then you would simply provide the path /Volumes/Seldon as before: diskutil repairPermissions /Volumes/Seldon In the event that you are scripting and want to take into…