I was reminded by a recent post to the radmind mailing list that there are usually still some loose ends to clean up when you use radmind to update machines from 10.3 to 10.4. One such loose end is the NetInfo database. Typically, most people don’t manage the NetInfo database via radmind. [...]
Archive for June, 2006
Using radmind to install Tiger – part 4
June 21, 2006Michael Bartosh
June 12, 2006As has been reported elsewhere, Michael Bartosh died this past weekend.
I first met Michael a couple of years ago in Cupertino. I was already an admirer of his work – his deep knowledge of OS X, OS X Server, and what it took to get them to play nicely in large heterogeneous environments, and his [...]
Securing the Screensaver
June 2, 2006On my old blog, I detailed a method I developed under 10.2 to enforce a particular screen saver for all users and to prevent the average user from changing it. This allowed us to enforce a password protected screensaver that activated after a certain idle interval.
A recent post on macosxhints takes this method and [...]
