This site isn’t being updated enough. Maybe I should start my own security site for the Mac. Not that I have time… Hmmmm…
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Tree Diseases
My tree is dying and the city says we have to remove it. Sad.
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Leopard and NFS
Did ya’ know you can Kerberize it?
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Mac OS X: Viewing Firewall Log Changes on the Fly
Well, this is pretty straight forward
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Full Disk Encryption and Cost
If you require Full Disk Encryption for all laptops in your organization then don’t forget to calculate the costs of doing so. There is the chance that you might not need to provided you can control what company assets can leave the environment, but the cost of implementing a solution to do so might outweigh the cost of purchasing FDE software for the Mac populace…
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Georgia Bulldogs vs. Hawaii
Let’s see – Colt Brennan vs. the Bulldogs. Am I the only one excited? I mean, we have a tendency of walking into a game like this and overlooking the team (West Virginia, Boston College) but I think we’re going to walk into this game prepared!
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Mac OS X: Hey, where's my admin user?
Hiding an admin user is a fairly straight forward task in Mac OS X. To do so, open Terminal and run the following command: defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow Hide500Users -bool YES Now, what if you sit down at a machine and you don’t see an expected admin user? Well, use that same command with a NO at the end to (hopefully) bring it back: defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow Hide500Users -bool NO
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Mac OS X: Changing Passwords from the Command Line
passwd can change passwords. dscl can also change a password for an account (in this case the cedge account) using the passwd extension: dscl . -passwd /Users/cedge
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Mac OS X: Editing Local Directory Store in Raw
Raw mode. That’s how you edit the local directory store when the system isn’t running. Have fun.
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Windows Server 2003: Repadmin
To determine where a given change has replicated, use the following command: repadmin /showmeta “CN=username,OU=staff,DC=318,DC=com” <Name of DC> <Name of DC> is the host name of the domain controller you want to check for the replicated parameters.