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Archive for October, 2006

Making parts of the filesystem read/write from NetBoot

So we use NetBoot (well NetInstall really) a lot here for diagnostics and as a platform for radminding machines from.
I’ve recently been refactoring our entire Radmind setup here, mainly because we’ve been using it for so long that we’re not actually taking advantage of any of the features Radmind has introduced in the last couple [...]

Temporarily swapping user passwords in Open Directory

So something I find that I need to do quite often is to log in as a specific user, and I don’t always want to reset their password.
While AFP has a really useful function where you can allow admins of an AFP server to masquerade as a specific user by using the admin password, no [...]

Typos can be fatal…

So last night I was playing around with the MBR on an external drive… and completely without thinking managed to wipe out my laptop.
/dev/rdisk1 Nigel, not /dev/rdisk0 ….
bleagh.
Anyway, it’s made me realise just how much I love HomeSync, as 95% of everything that matters has been syncing up to the server… and as I’ve had [...]