Oct 03
adminCentOS, Mac OS, Mac OS Server
Requirements:
- Access to your centos machine
- Mac OS X v. 10.9.x
- Basic command line knowledge
- A virtual or physical machine running centos connected to your network or with internet access
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Using encrypted keys for authentication offers two main benefits. Firstly, it is convenient as you no longer need to enter a password (unless you encrypt your keys with password protection) if you use public/private keys. Secondly, once public/private key pair authentication has been set up on the server, you can disable password authentication completely meaning that without an authorized key you can’t gain access – so no more password cracking attempts.
It’s a relatively simple process to create a public/private key pair and install them for use on your ssh server.
First, create a folder called .ssh in your home directory and cd into it (make sure you also have it on the server in the home directory of the user you are connecting with):
$ mkdir ~/.ssh; cd ~/.ssh
Second, create a public/private key pair on the client that you will use to connect to the server (you will need to do this from each client machine from which you connect):
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "Name Surname" -f name
Replace “Name Surname” and “name” with your name. This is to give it a bit of personalisation. For my example here I will use it like this:
$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "TheiNoob Tutorials" -f theinoob
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Sep 30
adminApple Software, Mac OS, Mac OS Server
Requirements:
- Mac OS X v. 10.9.x
- User account with admin privileges.
Video / Text:
- Go to Apple menu
- Select “System Preferences”
- Go to “Users and Groups” preference pane
- Click the lock icon and put your password in
- Click “Login Options”
- Click “Join…” button
- Click “Open Directory Utility…” button
- After the Directory Utility app is open make sure it is selected
- Click the lock icon and put your password in
- Go to “Edit” menu and select “Enable root user”
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Sep 08
adminApple Software
Requirements:
- Mac OS X v. 10.7 or newer
- basic command line knowledge
Text:
Creating the backup path:
If you are restoring from a TimeMachine backup (USB) the backup path is structured as follows:
patha=/Volumes/USB_VOLUME_NAME/Backups.backupdb/NAME_OF_MAC/YEAR-MONTH-DAY-HH/NAME_OF_ORIG_VOLUME/
If you are restoring from a TimeMachine backup (network, TM server) the backup is incapsulated into a .sparsebundle writable image. You will have to mount the image before you can access backed up data. The backup within is structured as follows:
patha=/Volumes/NAME_OF_VOLUME/Backups.backupdb/NAME_OF_MAC/YEAR-MONTH-DAY-HH/NAME_OF_ORIG_VOLUME/…
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Aug 29
adminApple Software, Mac OS
Requirements:
- mac os 10.6 or newer version
- an account that has admin privileges
Text:
If you are on Mac OS X v.10.6 open Terminal app and issue the following command:
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Mar 26
adminUncategorized
Requirements:
Obviously you need to be running Leopard (Snow Leopard) or later, and you’ll need a network share which is larger or equal to your hard drive in your Mac. In my case these shares are on SMB and AFP.
- Go into Applications > Utilities and open up Terminal
- Copy and paste this command into terminal (all on one line)
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
- Hit enter / return
- Mount your network share, in my case my share is off our server called TMBACKUPSand my share is called User-Backups
- Go to System Preferences and open Time Machine
- Click on Change Disk
- Select the share you wish to backup to, I’ve selected User-Backups
- That’s it, you’re done
- Wait until the drive image is generated (a couple of minutes) and you should be set. To verify it is working open up your network share in Finder and you should see a file which is named [your computer name] [your MAC address].sparsebundle
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