Subject’s a mouthful eh? Basically, I needed for my 10.7 Macs to authenticate to our RADIUS wireless network using PEAP authentication & the Mac’s Certficate from our domain.
Authenticating 10.7 Macs To A RADIUS Server With Certificate Enabled PEAP Authentication
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Submit User Information From AD Into The JSS At Login
For couple of years now i’ve ran various flavours of the below script via a login policy on my Mac clients.
The purpose of this script is to first check if the user is a network user, & if so then perform a lookup of their account against AD grabbing information that can then be submitted to the JSS in the relevant fields as per the below, (click to enlarge).
NOTE: This script needs to be customised for YOUR environment for it to work, some fields of data may well be the same.. but it depends on dumb luck & your AD being relatively “standard.”
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Unlocking Preference Panes For Non-Admin Users On 10.6 & 10.7
Way back in November 2010 I posted a script that would unlock each secure system preference pane for non-admins, (this can be found here).
With Lion came a more granular way to achieve the same, but rather then have a script for 10.6 & another for 10.7 i’ve amalgamated them with an OS check in the script.
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Error: “This account does not have privileges to use Casper Admin/Remote”
I started getting the below error when launching Casper Admin & Remote on my main mac.
Error: Could not write to /Library/JSS/Tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml
When trying to setup a clustered DMZ server as a computer only JSS I get the
below error:
Could not write to /Library/JSS/Tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml
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Error: The package does not appear to be on the server (400). / line 1: syntax error
Recently we setup a 10.7 Mac Server in our DMZ & clustered this with our main JSS to enable external clients connectivity to our JSS & for them to be able to use Self Service & ASUS when off the network.
However we’ve had some issues getting the distribution point to work over HTTPS, however HTTP & AFP worked fine.
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Error: Syntax error on line 241 of /etc/swupd/swupd.conf: Port must be specified
This morning one of my Apple Software Servers (ASUS) was not supplying updates. When checking the swupd_err.log in Server Admin I saw the following repeated hundreds of times:
Syntax error on line 241 of /etc/swupd/swupd.conf:
Port must be specified
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