OS X

03 Aug Automatic Disabling SIP with El Capitan Upgrade

Posted at 18:42h in Apple, Bash, csrutil, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Management, OS X, OS X El Capitan (Version 10.11), Python, Radmind, Security, SIP by 2 Comments

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Overview System Integrity Protection or "SIP" is a new security measure implemented in 10.11 "El Capitan". SIP protects access to system locations and restricting runtime attachment to system processes, this security policy guards against compromise — whether accidental or by malicious code. SIP protects file system locations...

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22 Jul Casper Remote – Using Custom SSH Port

Posted at 22:56h in Casper Remote, OS X, Security by Richard Glaser 0 Comments

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Overview Casper Remote is an application from JAMF Software that allows you to immediately perform remote management tasks on computers, such as installing packages, running scripts, and binding to directory services.  All of these tasks can be performed via policy in the JAMF Software Server (JSS),...

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28 Jun Fetching Data From the JSS using API calls & Python

Posted at 20:21h in Cross platform, Information Technology, Jamf, JAMF Software Server, OS X, Programming, Python, Terminal, Unix, Windows by 0 Comments

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Like a loyal droid, your JSS wants to help! JAMF Software's Casper Suite provides an Application Programming Interface, or API, to communicate with the JAMF Software Server (JSS) database. This allows an enterprise to customize specific areas of the JSS as needed. This is the first...

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12 May OS X Bonjour Naming Guidelines

Posted at 21:42h in Apple, networksetup, OS X, Python, scutil, systemsetup by Richard Glaser 4 Comments

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This post covers OS X Bonjour naming guidelines including overview of tools for retrieving and setting the Bonjour Name on OS X, allowed characters, maximum length, and issues with using tools like scutil, systemsetup, and network setup with setting name....

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23 Mar Jacob Bradshaw – 1980 to 2016

Posted at 23:14h in Apple, Cross platform, Enterprise, Higher Education, Jamf, OS X, Software by 19 Comments

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"Dobroye! Dobroye!" - Jacob Bradshaw. Jacob Bradshaw recently passed away on Thursday, March 17, 2016 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was hilarious, kind, thoughtful, and generous to everyone he knew and his laugh was contagious! Jacob started at the University of Utah in September of 2010....

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07 Mar Firmware Password Manager for OS X

Posted at 15:00h in Apple, Enterprise, Higher Education, Jamf, Management, OS X, Python, Radmind, Security by 2 Comments

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Overview Firmware Password Manager (FWPM) is my approach to the problem of managing firmware passwords on Apple computers. When I began this project there were no solutions, besides setting the password and never changing it. FWPM allows you to update your firmware passwords quickly and easily....

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13 Feb Modifying Open File Descriptor Limits on OS X

Posted at 01:12h in Apple, Bash, Enterprise, Higher Education, Information Technology, Jamf, Limit Descriptors, Management, OS X Yosemite (Version 10.10), Radmind by 9 Comments

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Overview In this post we will be talking about file descriptors and increasing limit descriptors in OS X Yosemite. File descriptors are limited by the OS. This causes some applications and services to return errors. By increasing the limit of file descriptors we can reduce the amount...

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08 Jan Python — Managing custom installations in OS X

Posted at 17:32h in Apple, Management, OS X, PATH Variable, Python by 0 Comments

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Update Since this post was first written, I've discovered some people use Anaconda Python. After investigating, it looks like Anaconda is a much simpler solution. To deploy it, I installed both Anaconda 2 and 3 to /usr/local/python/ , and then modified the /etc/paths  and /etc/manpaths  files accordingly...

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05 Jan JDS – Change Default Storage Location

Posted at 00:25h in JAMF Distribution Server, OS X El Capitan (Version 10.11) by Richard Glaser 0 Comments

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Overview The JAMF Distribution Server (JDS) is a distribution point that is managed by the JAMF Software Server (JSS), similar to a computer or mobile device. A JDS is a completely separate server that you install on OS X Server (10.6 or greater) or Linux. It...

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23 Dec JSS – Troubleshooting MySQL Connection Errors

Posted at 17:20h in Jamf, JAMF Software Server, MySQL, OS X Server, OS X Yosemite (Version 10.10) by Richard Glaser 2 Comments

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Overview On our JAMF Software Server (JSS) we noticed and error occurring during scheduled JSS database backup using the JSS Database Utility. The bug is in the implementation of the MySQL binary running on OS X, and isn't seen on other platforms like Windows or other...

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