By Edward Marczak, Greg Neagle
Many structures directors at the Mac desire a approach to deal with laptop configuration after preliminary setup and deployment. Apple's controlled personal tastes method (also referred to as MCX) is under-documented, frequently misunderstood, and occasionally outright unknown via structures directors. MCX is generally deployed along with an OS X server, however it is usually utilized in home windows environments or the place no committed server exists at all.
Enterprise Mac controlled Preferences is the definitive consultant to Apple's controlled customer know-how. With this e-book, you will get the following:
- An example-driven advisor to Mac OS X controlled Preferences/Client know-how
- Recipes for universal use case stories and styles
- A designated strategy acceptable for any sys admin that manages Macs in an OS X or home windows setting
This is the single e-book that makes a speciality of this aspect of OS X solely. in case you are a sys admin, this booklet will remove a lot of the soreness of operating with OS X customer platforms. Even greater, either one of the authors are very taken with the Mac community—Greg Neagle is a part of the MacEnterprise guidance committee, and Ed Marczak is the administrative editor and an writer for MacTech journal and a member of the Apple experts Network.
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App will write the XML header and basic structure for you. The Property List Editor application is installed as part of Apple’s developer tools. Instructions for installing the developer tools are in Chapter 2. Once it is installed, you’ll find it, along with a host of other tools, in the /Developer/Applications/Utilities folder (Figure 4-1). CHAPTER 4: Property List Files Figure 4-1. plist file Using Property List Editor is very straightforward. plist file, the structure and keys are displayed along the column on the left, and values are displayed in the column on the right.
However, for anything with a little more complexity, you may already be scripting in Python, Perl, or Ruby. While you can successfully use any of these, for demonstration purposes, we’re going to use Python. 5 and above. 4-based machines, but you’ll need to compile and install PyObjC yourself. 5. 6; both contain the Objective-C bridge support. Python, with PyObjC (the Objective-C bridge), turns working with property list files into a pretty trivial operation. Most importantly, you get the best of both worlds: Apple’s APIs, along with Python’s ease of use and the speed of the edit and run cycle (skipping the compile step of C-based languages).
When you’re using Mac OS X, Apple has provided a structure that it expects to have available. Figure 5-1 shows a simplified and not fully complete sample directory tree. com Default _amavisd Computers Computers _jabber Groups Users gneagle Users Groups marczak everyone staff Figure 5-1. Simplistic (and incomplete) example view of Apple’s directory hierarchy In Figure 5-1, you’ll note the root, represented by the forward slash character (/). Other branches of this tree descend from the root. In this diagram, the level just below the root represents the different directory service plug-ins-----BSD, LDAP, and the local node.