Integrating Mac OS X on Campus (back
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These are presentations from the institutions presenting at
the seminars hosted at many locations around the country.
- Application Deployment (2.2
MB PDF)
This presentation gives an overview of their cluster environment, user experience, roaming profiles
considerations, file security, proper application behavior, and applications that don’t behave properly.
- Presentation by Carnegie Mellon
University.
- File System Maintenance (6.4
MB PDF)
This is a overview file system maintenance tools, issues and configuration.
- Presentation by Carnegie Mellon
University.
- Implementing Mac OS X (3.1
MB PDF)
An overview of the Mac OS X implementation including a
review of the general campus computing environment. Discussion of details of
the public computer image, as well as the tools, including Carbon Copy Cloner,
Apple Remote Desktop, command line ASR, and NetBoot that enhance the management
of OS X labs and public computing facilities.
- Presentation by Swarthmore
College.
- Integrating OSX in a Unix Infrastructure (768
KB PDF)
An overview of integrating OSX in an already existing infrastructure and some
issues that need to be addressed. Some pieces discussed are: LDAP, Remote Home
Directories, Portal, Backups, Printing, License Management, and Shares.
- Presentation by Sheridan College.
- Leveraging the Directory (1
MB PDF)
This presentation describes how the University of Colorado ITS labs leverage
an Apple Open Directory to provide additonal benefits to the lab environment,
while still using an enterprise directory for authentication. Setting
up a remote administrator and providing different application sets to
different users are investigated.
- Presentation by The University
of Colorado at Boulder
- Mac OS X Authentication (1.6 MB PDF)
- Mac OS X Authentication Handout (.6
MB PDF)
This presentation is a case study of how the University of Utah Student
Computing Labs performed network authentication on Mac OS X 10.2
(Jaguar) using Kerberos and an Enterprise Directory. This will highlight
setting up the Kerberos client built in to Jaguar as well as using
the Apple Directory Access Utility to setup directory integration
using LDAPv2.
- Presentation by The University of Utah.
- Mac OS X Campus Integration (908
KB PDF)
This presentation discuss directory authentication at
UW-Madison as well as tools for deploying, managing, and maintaining Mac OS X
in labs and
other
managed settings. Topics will include: Carbon Copy Cloner, Apple Software
Restore (NetRestore), NetBoot, Apple Remote Desktop and radmind.
- Presentation by The University
of
Wisconsin-Madison.
- Mac OS X Lab Security (5.3 MB PDF)
- Mac OS X Lab Security Handout (1.1
MB PDF)
This presentation will discuss Mac OS X lab physical security, boot
security, how to handle published exploits, passwords, world write
permissions, SUID applications, how to securely modify the system,
what to do with applications that stay open after logout, how to
protect services that you might enable, and how to monitor your labs
to ensure that they stay secure.
- Presentation by The University of Utah.
- Mac OS X:Securing the Workstation (3.1
MB PDF)
An overview of security concerns for Mac OS X and the steps we're taking to
remedy them. This will address some of the security holes of a public machine
with command line access enabled, either through the Terminal application or
through X-Windows. Includes physical, network, and software issues and some
discussion of best practices from UNIX sysadmin perspective.
- Presentation by Swarthmore College.
- Overview of our Student Labs (3.1 MB PDF)
This is a overview of integration with their institutions infrastructure,
including LDAP, Kerberos, OpenAFS, File System Maintenance with
RsyncX and Radmind, and application deployment.
- Presentation by Carnegie Mellon University.
- Radmind (3.1 MB PDF)
- Radmind Handout (1.6 MB PDF)
This presentation will discuss Mac OS X file system maintenance using
radmind. It will include an overview of radmind, and details on how
the University of Utah, Student Computing Labs group uses it to restore & update OS and software; remove client modifications by users, OS & hardware bugs; track & deploy OS and software updates; and options for customizing use of radmind.
- Presentation by The University of Utah.
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