Macintosh : Innstalling of OSX-daily: Details of OSX-daily

User documentation for OSX-daily

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Background

OSX-daily is the name of the Macintosh version of the management scheme at University of Oslo (UiO). Every computer in permanent or semi permanent use at UiO, shall have a management scheme. The exception to this rule are open wireless networks and student dormitories (studentbyer). OSX-daily will be in common use at UiO during 2006. In the meantime, Macintoshes must use the old management scheme, named USITifisering.

 

• Information about USITifisering (old style) can be found here (in norwegian): http://www.usit.uio.no/it/mac/mosx/om_usitifisering.html

System requirements Only Macintoshes with Mac OS X 10.4.6 or newer can run OSX-daily. OSX-daily needs very little HD-space and a special folder is created for OSX-daily. The Firewall must be turned off and SSH will be activated at all times. This management scheme is based on Macintoshes using A(ctive) D(irectory) or LDAP for authentication. To add the Mac into AD is documented here . Do you want LDAP-authentication, please contact unix-drift@usit.uio.no OSX-daily is mandatory for Intel Macintoshes, the old management scheme can not be used. Macintoshes using the older management scheme (USITifiserte Macs) can use this scheme for the remaining part of 2006. Moving to OSX-daily usually means that Mac OS X must be reinstalled OSX-daily is vastly better suited to work with portable computing compared to the old USITifisering scheme.

Installing and setup of Mac OS X

• For installing and setup of Mac OSX 10.4 Tiger - see the web page:
  http://www.usit.uio.no/it/mac/tiger/ (in norwegian)

Technical description of OSX-daily

A somewhat more technical description of what OSX-daily is and what the user implications are, can be found at:

http://www.usit.uio.no/it/mac/driftsopplegg/osx-daily.html (in norwegian)

Decide who are allowed to log in (essentially by way of SSH)

Instructions for managing who is allowed to log in, can be found here:

• http://www.usit.uio.no/it/mac/driftsopplegg/pam/ (in norwegian)

Installing of OSX-daily

Download osx-daily.zip

Mount the package and run

The terminal window option

You can also install OSX-daily by way of the terminal window.

Start Terminal as administrator and download or transfer the above zip-file.

Do the following:

maskin.uio.no# unzip osx-daily.zip maskin.uio.no# sudo installer -pkg osx-daily.mpkg -target /

The Mac is now set up with OSX-daily.

After that, add site-admin (mail address for the administrator of the Mac) Usually the administrator is a mailing list to the IT-support group at your Faculty or department. If you are unsure, contact your Local IT-support officer. In the example we are using the address support@yourfaculty.uio.no Change this with the real address. Then, run osx.daily.

maskin.uio.no# echo "siteadmin=drift@yourfaculty.uio.no" >/etc/usit.osx.daily/flags/hostinfo maskin.uio.no# /etc/usit.osx.daily/osx.daily

The Mac has now implemented OSX-daily and executes this once each hour.

Credits: OSX-daily is developed in USIT's Group for System Management mainly by Sigurd Mytting and Anders Bruvik.

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Redaksjon: Dag Tore Antonsen/Steinar Moum, macadm@usit.uio.no
Dokument opprettet: 14.03.2006, endret: 08.06.2006