When deploying Palo Alto User-ID feature, integrating macOS computers can be a challenge. User-ID has a lot of potential ways to catch the match user / IP address, but we are sometimes in the situation with macOS computers where we need Continue reading Palo Alto User-ID with macOS computers
Using SSSD it’s relatively easy to bind a CentOS 7 or Red Hat Enteprise Linux 7 to Active Directory service. Install the needed binaries: yum install realmd sssd adcli Discover the domain: realm discover YOURDOMAIN Join the domain: realm join Continue reading Quick way to bind CentOS 7/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to Active Directory
The installation of ClamAV from EPEL 7 to CentOS/Red Hat 7 is a little bit more challenging than the simple setup used in CentOS 6/Red Hat 6. The problem isn’t really the installation itself, but the way how things are Continue reading When installing ClamAV from EPEL to CentOS/Red Hat 7 becomes a nightmare…
I noticed that I was unable to mount an NFS export from a CentOS 7 server with our OS X clients using the “Connect to Server” menu in the Finder, but it was working when using the command mount_nfs. This Continue reading Connecting an OS X client to a Linux NFS export will fail
While searching the web, I found a lot of methods to create a new Guest account that will be used by our students. We don’t want to use the standard OS X account because we need a different name and Continue reading Create a custom guest account not named “Guest” on OS X
This Active Directory attribute pwdLastSet uses a timestamp that is stored as a large integer that represents the number of 100 nanosecond intervals since 1 January 1601. When we’re familiar with working with Unix epoch time, it is not really handy. Epoch is Continue reading Convert Active Directory pwdLastSet attribute to readable time
Here, you can find some tips/notes to manage Apple Software Updates from the Terminal/Script. Disable Apple Software Update automatic check: /usr/sbin/softwareupdate –schedule off Disable the download of new update in the background: /usr/bin/defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate AutomaticDownload -bool false Disable system Continue reading Apple Software Update CLI and preferences
When you’re asking your users to change their passwords from a website, it will be interesting to disable the ability to modify the password directly from the Mac OS X login window. The login window checks the expiration date of Continue reading Disabling the password change/reminder for Active Directory accounts
