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iOS administration: Fleet Management / remote setup / remote control **without jailbreak**
I have a fleet of more than 10 iOS devices (iPhones 3GS, 4, 4S, iPad2...) to manage, setup, etc.
Often, users are very lost with configuration and usage (device configuration, e-mail, calendar sync, ...
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Why can't I use the GNU Debugger (GDB) programming utility on Mac as a standard user?
I can only use the GNU Debugger (GDB) when authenticated as an administrator.
When I launch GDB as a standard user, after giving the GDB command "run", a dialog requests me for a user name and ...
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Administratively, how can you purchase multiple licenses from the Mac App Store?
I need to purchase 10 licenses for an app found on the Mac App Store (not iTunes). How do I go about purchasing those 10 distinct licenses and then deploy them to their respective machines?
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terminal sudo or su asks for password in Mountain Lion OS X
I don't know the root password on my system and I'm trying to start Apache.
$ sudo apachectl start
WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important ...
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Homebrew: change name of group ownership in /usr/local/ so admins and standard users can brew
I have a local admin user and a few "network" mobile users (without admin privileges) who need to be able to brew on a Mac. So, these 'network' users are not members of the group admin and probably ...
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Check a Mac partition's installed OS
I'm managing a lot of Macs and each machines has several partitions with different OS versions.
I would like to create a script that I could run to do an inventory of all partitions of all machines ...
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How do I add a user to Print Administrator group but not full administrator?
He unplugged the printer and plugged it back in. OS X (10.6) asked for the print administrator password. I would like to add the user to that group but not the full administrators group. How do I do ...
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AD User as an administrator on the Mac?
I'm looking for a way to add an Active Directory user to a Mac and let them administrate the machine, without making more than just that user an administrator.
Right now, I'm using Directory Utility ...
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Protect my files from local admins
Is there any way for me to protect my home folder and keychain from other users with admin privileges on a single machine?
EDIT: Here's some background on the situation. In my office, we have several ...
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Why can Finder perfom shutdown, when it is a privileged command?
The Finder allows a non privileged user to perform a shutdown assuming there are no other users logged in, however shutdown is a privileged UNIX command. Does anyone know by what mechanism it does ...
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Mobile Account as Administrators Not Working While Mobile
I had a user that was set up to administer an OS X machine. That user is an AD account, with mobile accounts enabled. The user's AD group is set to allow administration using the directory utility.
I ...
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How to source a file in Mac
I'm from the Linux world where if I want to source a file I type for example:
'source /etc/profile'
How do I do this in Mac?
