Considering building a Hackintosh? There are a number of methods out there that I can’t say I’m in love with. But one method I do like is using EFI-X, provided you’re happy with the supported motherboards, mostly from Gigabyte. EFI-X is a hardware based EFI emulator, which allows you to run more natively as a Mac OS X computer. Oh, and if you build a Hackintosh, don’t forget to buy a legitimate copy of Mac OS X or Mac OS X Server to run it on.
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Editing EFI
There are a number of tasks that a little EFI trickery might require. If you need to edit EFI, check out rEFIt on SourceForge. rEFIt will allow you to edit your boot environment to show a selection menu for operating systems and provide custom icons for loading operating systems. If you just need to select operating systems, BootPicker will be a more easily support tool now that Apple has taken over the project. OK, so this one is short – but what do you expect, it’s a holiday weekend…
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Mac OS X: Reset Open Firmware Password
To reset the open firmware password you can either reboot while resetting PRAM 3 or more times or just pull out the RAM, reboot and reseat it after the next restart. Have fun with that.
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Fun Times with the JAMF Binary
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Casper is an incredibly useful tool for package deployment, maintaining records of the systems in your environment and policy management. But for those of you already using Casper (or considering it) you’ll be glad to know that you can use the jamf binary to do all kinds of fun stuff that can help with troubleshooting computers in your environment. For example: The following command will setup a hidden SSH user and restrict SSH access to be allowed by only that user: jamf createAccount -username casperadmin -realname "Casper Admin" -password capseradmin -home /Users/casperadmin -hiddenUser -admin -secureSSH This command can be used to display a popup…