http://www.mactechpeople.com/wiki/ 2010-01-15T13:36:15-07:00 http://www.mactechpeople.com/wiki/ http://www.mactechpeople.com/wiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2009-10-28T22:26:33-07:00 http://www.mactechpeople.com/wiki/doku.php/management:adding_an_admin_user?rev=1256790393&do=diff Puppet has a built in user type and we can add a user with it but it doesn't get one important item to make them an admin user - an authentication authority. The real snecret is that this includes a ShadowHash that appears to be different for each user but the same for the same user on different machies if all other details are the same so just copy localadmin.plist from one machine to another. text/html 2009-10-19T22:54:58-07:00 http://www.mactechpeople.com/wiki/doku.php/management:computers_and_groups?rev=1256014498&do=diff I have two scripts that work to create a computer record for “localhost” and one to shift it into a group. first - create the computer record #!/bin/bash sudo dscl /Local/Default -create /Computers/localhost sudo dscl /Local/Default -create /Computers/localhost RealName localhost sudo dscl /Local/Default -create /Computers/localhost GeneratedUUID $(uuidgen) sudo dscl /Local/Default -create /Computers/localhost ENetAddress $(ifconfig en0 |grep ether | awk '{print $2}') sudo dscl /Local/Default… text/html 2009-10-20T22:37:37-07:00 http://www.mactechpeople.com/wiki/doku.php/management:handling_mcx?rev=1256099857&do=diff The first thing to note is that handling preferences in MCX is not atomic, it is all or nothing for the computer, group or user. See Puppet Type Reference - MCX for some words from Jeff McCune who wrote the provider. text/html 2009-10-19T22:36:39-07:00 http://www.mactechpeople.com/wiki/doku.php/management:installing_puppet?rev=1256013399&do=diff (Make sure you are running at least 10.6.1) First, download and install the Facter and Puppet packages from the DMG files at puppet.org. Configuring puppetmasterd The config file is /etc/puppet/puppet.conf - it is used for both puppetmasterd and the client puppetd. text/html 2010-01-07T22:16:32-07:00 http://www.mactechpeople.com/wiki/doku.php/management:installing_zine?rev=1262927792&do=diff Here are some notes I made while installing Zine on OS X Server 10.6.2 First caveat to these notes is that I had already installed a replacement Python readline and iPython. Requirements SQLAlchemy (0.5) This is the database abstraction layer. SQLAlchemy installs with a 'sudo easy_install sqlalchemy'. This picked up 0.5.7. text/html 2009-11-29T16:50:40-07:00 http://www.mactechpeople.com/wiki/doku.php/management:notes_on_mcx?rev=1259538640&do=diff Here are a few notes on various bits of MCX stuff I'm gleaning as I go. Handling DNS search domains It seems that search domains are specified per interface and the interface key changes on each machine. At the moment I've decided to handle this in the system image as too hard under MCX. text/html 2009-10-28T22:30:40-07:00 http://www.mactechpeople.com/wiki/doku.php/management:puppet_for_dslocal?rev=1256790640&do=diff Configuring puppet to push out the file required for dslocal is not difficult. On my systems I only need to push out the contents of the 'computergroup' directory. Configuring puppetmasterd First we need to get the server to make the files available. I copy the files to from /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/computergroups to /var/puppet/bucket and make sure they are owned root:staff (puppet will complain if it can't copy the files to an existing users ownership). I also make the files 'rw… text/html 2009-10-27T16:41:38-07:00 http://www.mactechpeople.com/wiki/doku.php/management:start?rev=1256683298&do=diff Welcome to the “Managing” namespace. Here you will find pages devoted to managing a number Macs. Most of these page are just draft notes. Most deal with using Puppet