Added a post on the Secret Chest blog on finding out what Apps like ours are doing on a machine. Because people deserve to know… https://www.secret-chest.com/post/find-out-what-apps-extensions-like-ours-are-doing-on-a-mac
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Spelunking in SQLite && Apple’s Keychain
I put a little article up on the Secret Chest site on Apple’s Keychain, SQL, SQLite, encrypted SQLite, and what lies beyond that. Hope someone finds it somewhat useful: https://www.secret-chest.com/post/spelunking-in-sqlite-macos-keychains
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Gopherfolk Mini
Just posted a gopherfolk mini. It’s a wizard. Or magic user. Whatever. I recommend painting it like a golden gopher. ‘Cause that was what I did. It’s at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6434708 if you want to print it!
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Krypted.com is 19 years old
Like a kid off to the first year of college, you haven’t heard that much from krypted.com recently. But if you’re still out there following, I’m still out here doing stuffs. Like the most recent episode of the MacAdmins Podcast, accessible at http://macadmins.libsyn.com/flashcast-13-2023-in-review. Or there’s pretty recent code usually posted on my GitHub at https://github.com/krypted. Or the latest edition of the Apple Device Management book I did with Rich Trouton can be found on Amazon. Or the Startup Players Handbook I did with Chip and Amy Pearson can be found on Amazon as well. Or I’ve written plenty of articles for the blog of my new product Secret Chest at…
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(Cross-Post) Video from JSS-autopkg-addon Presentation
JSS-autopkg-addon Presentation from Allister Banks on Vimeo. (Guest post by Allister Banks) On June 26th, I had the pleasure of being invited by @Tecnico1931 to the NYC Metro JAMF user group meeting. A worksheet I created for this event may be found here: url.aru-b.com/jssAutopkg See also Shea Craig’s python-jss, and thanks go out to James Barclay, Sam Johnson, and all the folks mentioned in the video.
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Bring Out Yer Apps with Autopkg! (Maybe with a little help)
(Guest post by Allister Banks) Working with modern tools in the ‘auto'(dmg/pkg) suite, it sure reinforces the old chestnut, ‘it’s turtles XML all the way down.’ The thing that struck me when first diving into using autopkg was that different product recipes could potentially have a good amount of similarities when they share common processors. One example is drag-drop apps that can be discovered with an ‘appcast’ URL, which, in my recollection, became common as the Sparkle framework gained popularity. This commonality is exactly the type of thing sysadmins like myself seek to automate, so I built a few helper scripts to 1. discover what apps have appcast URLs, 2. generate the base…
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How to Find the Build Version of a Mavericks Installer
(Guest post by Allister Banks) We’re several years in to Apple distributing its installer through its (formerly with the ‘Mac’ prefix) App Store, which if you right-click the bundle you can show package contents, and then navigate to the packages involved in the install as part of an Electronic Software Distribution image(or InstallESD.dmg for short.) Guidance remains the same, however, regarding getting the proper version of the OS to reinstall on your computer – in almost all cases, the newest hardware will only be supported by a ‘forked‘ version of the operating system. That means the process outlined here on Rich Trouton’s DerFlounder blog is still 100% applicable if you…
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Announcement (Cross Post) – JSS Add-on for Autopkg
(Guest Post by Allister Banks) As Venn diagram circles go, many folks in our community are getting into autopkg, and there’s even more that already use the JAMF Casper Suite. Over on the 318.com blog there’s an announcement for a new ‘processor’ add-on that can be installed with autopkg, that therefore can leverage the JSS API to fulfill many of the functions which up until present only Munki enjoyed. Please do read the release notes and give it a try!
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Video on Setting Up a Munki Repo
(Allister Banks Guest Post:) As part of my presentations at LOPSA-East(the pdf slides of this one is here) earlier this year, I wanted to demonstrate how quickly you can get a proof-of-concept of Munki running on a recent Mac OS without Server. I had always used Greg Neagle’s awesome intro articles for MacTech(especially part 2,) which were created back in 10.6 days(simpler times, amirite?) This video takes you through the setup of a Munki repo, and goes on to demonstrate not only basic Munki interaction and functionality, but if you setup MunkiWebAdmin and the reporting scripts on your clients in addition, it does a quick tour of that interface. Setting Up a…