Category / Mac OS X
Kerberos Authentication on Mac OS X with Google Chrome
Article adapated from Jeff Geerling (http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blogs/jeff-geerling/kerberos-authentication-mac-os): Kerberos authentication allows your computer to log into certain services automatically without you having to enter (and re-enter) your password (it’s a SSO—single sign-on—service). Kerberos v5…
Enable Remote Management on Mac OS X
You need to enable remote management on your mac machines to give you the ability to vnc using your local administrator credentials to easily remotely troubleshoot any Mac issues that your end…
AD User Certificate and Wireless 802.1x EAP-TLS on Mac OS X
You’ve been tasked with ensuring the Mac’s on your domain have the correct certificates and magic tricks to get 802.1x to work, and let’s face it no matter how much as an…
Creating a Institutional FileVault Recovery Key on Mac OS X
At some point as an administrator you’ll be faced with the scenario whereby you’ll need to gain institutional access to a Mac, you’ll need to create what’s known as a Institutional Recovery…
Changing the Login Screen Wallpaper on Mac OS X
You may be thinking, “Why on earth would I change the login screen wallpaper?” Well this one is purely down to personal preference as an admin and give’s you that “Oh lala”…
Mounting User AD Network Drives on Mac OS X
We’ve all had that age old problem of trying to mount a network drive within an Active Directory environment, but if you map via the standard Finder you expose the user to…
Managing User Docks in Mac OS X
A great way to manage the OS X Dock in an automated environment is the great use of Kyle Crawford’s GitHub code of DockUtil it’s a python script that you can package…
Re-Create Administrator Permissions on Mac User Accounts
Before re-creating the admin group there is a way to check if the admin group has definitely been deleted, to do this log into the Mac with the root user account, then…
Enable the “root” user using Single User Mode in Mac OS X
Hold down the Command (⌘)+ S buttons whilst turning on the machine, the system will then boot into Single User Mode at the prompt type: /sbin/fsck -fy at the prompt type: /sbin/mount…