Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC), San Jose
May 13, 2002

At WWDC, we held a birds-of-a-feather session for Higher Ed. Lab Administration. We gave a series of demonstrations to show how we've implemented several aspects of lab management at our institutions. You may download most of these presentations below.

• Auto update Applications with RsyncX (380 KB PDF)
  A cookbook for using RsyncX to maintain the items in the /Applications directory. Specific commands for setting up the SSH keys are shown. Four scripts that are used in this implementation of RsyncX are shown.


• Managing your file system with Radmind (Official web site)
  The authors of radmind joined us to demonstrate their tools for hard drive maintenance. The demo included a set of GUI tools for managing loadsets. On the web site above, be sure to check out the mailing list archive to get the latest details on the project.


• Bulk installation with NetBoot and ASR (7 min. video, 11 MB)
  This is an animated slide show that offers an approach for installing a custom configuration of Mac OS X 10.1 on an entire room of Macs with very little interaction required. The machines are booted over the network, the contents of the hard disk are replaced with a selected image, and the machine is automatically rebooted.
  


• Setting up kiosks (4 min. video, 6.3 MB)
  Another animated slide show that describes the specific steps to use Mac OS X as a kiosk where only one application (such as a web browser) can be used. It shows how to replace the Finder and other tricks for securing the machine.


• Managing users with LDAP and Kerberos (12 min. video)
  This page contains an informative and entertaining movie that documents the process of integrating Mac OS X 10.1 into an institution's LDAP and Kerberos infrastructure. The file size is large, but it uses a progressive download to begin playing right away.


• Nomadic users with OpenAFS (1.3 MB PDF)
  These slides begin with an introduction of the presenters, then moves into a discussion of supporting "nomadic users." It shows a configuration that stores user preferences and documents centrally on an OpenAFS file server. This allows a user's environment to move with them no matter which lab machine they happen to use.