Let's say you've assumed responsibility for managing a new group of Mac OS X machines. These machines were previously set up by a variety of people, and have different local admin account names and passwords. To simplify your life, you want to standardize the local admin account name and password, and additionally, create a way to update the local admin password periodically.
A common need in a managed OS X environment is to run certain scripts every time someone logs in, or to open certain items (applications, background utilities, folders, documents). Apple has provided a method for each user to specify items to be opened at login, but it is not entirely obvious how to specify certain items to be opened or executed for all users of a given computer.
Fortunately, there is a simple way to do this.
This document describes how information stored in Novell's eDirectory can be used to authenticate and manage Mac OS 10.3 users and provide these users with network based home directories and file services from a Netware 6 and 6.5 servers using the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP)
Let's say you've assumed responsibility for managing a new group of Mac OS X machines. These machines were previously set up by a variety of people, and have different local admin account names and passwords. To simplify your life, you want to standardize the local admin account name and password, and additionally, create a way to update the local admin password periodically.
