• Mac OS X,  Mac Security

    Cookie Management With Curl

    To tell curl that you can read and write cookies, first we’ll start the engine using an empty cookie jar, using the -b option, which always reads cookies into memory: curl -b newcookiejar https://krypted.com If your site can set cookies you can then read them with the -L option curl -L -b newcookiejar https://krypted.com The response should be similar to the following: Reading cookies from file Curl also supports reading cookies in from the Netscape cookie format, used by defining a cookies.txt file instead: curl -L -b cookies.txt https://krypted.com If the server updates the cookies in a response, curl would update that cookie in memory but unless you write something…

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

    Promote A Yosemite Open Directory Replica To A Master

    You’ve got Open Directory running and humming beautifully in OS X Server (Server 3.5 on OS X 10.10 Yosemite). You show up to work and the hard drive has died on that perfectly configured Open Directory Master. Luckily, you have a replica and you have an archive of your Master. You can restore or you can promote your Replica to a Master. What to do? Well, I can’t tell you what you should do, but I can tell you that Apple has planned for this. Here, we’re going to look at promoting that Replica to a Master. Because after all, hard drives fail. Let’s look at what all this looks…