Authenticate Apache 2.0 against Mac OS X Open Directory

October 31st, 2007

Mac OS X Hints has a helpful post which explains how to authenticate Apache 2.0 against Mac OS X open directory.

Change the location of Home Directory 10.5

October 31st, 2007

Mac OS X Hints has a helpful post for those of us who would like to quickly move the location of home directories under Mac OS X 10.5.

And for those of us wanting to script the relocation of home directories they have us covered.

Re-Run Setup Assistant Mac OS X

October 31st, 2007

Macintouch is hosting an article which explains how to re-run the setup assistant.

Basically removing the file listed below will result in the setup assistant running at startup.

/var/db/.AppleSetupDone

It is probably a good idea to also remove any of the user home directories, passwords and netinfo database ( under 10.4 and earlier)

/Users/*
/var/db/netinfo/local.nidb
/var/db/shadow/hash/*

The setup assistant may clean up some of these areas automatically. Therefore, it may not be necessary to remove all of these files and directories manually.