LDAP
in Mac OS X Server
When you think of network services and their clients, you don't often
think about the information that has to be stored about, or on behalf,
of each of those clients. Your mail server and file server, for example,
have to know the user name and password of every user. You may also
have a web server that requires similar information. You may even
want all the computers in your network to be able to use the same
login information to authenticate users.
These are typical of the problems that "directory services" were developed
to solve. In this article I'm going to explain how we can solve them
using Mac OS X.
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Explaining
the URL-Based Mac OS X Vulnerability
Exactly what is it about Mac OS X that is responsible for the security
vulnerability currently being discussed? The situation is a little
confusing, and I may be muddling some of the details, but here's my
current understanding of the situation.
As you know, when you double-click a document in the Finder, the application
that "owns" that document starts up and opens the document. For example,
if you double-click a Word document, Word starts up. This requires
that your computer have a notion of "types of document," and that
it draw an ownership association between a particular document type
and a particular application. Before Mac OS X, this association was
performed by means of four-letter creator codes hidden in the meta-information
for a file (the "desktop database"). But on Mac OS X, it's done in
a new way, by a part of the system called Launch Services. Apple documents
the entire situation on this page of the developer documentation about
Launch Services.
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Office
slims down for Mac
MICROSOFT'S all-new Office 2004 software for the Apple Macintosh has
arrived in Australia. It's a much improved product, but Microsoft
Australia has resisted the opportunity for a price cut that would
bring the product into line with US prices.
The standard version of the business software suite, like its predecessor
Office v.X, will sell in Australia for $699.
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The
visible SAN from Apple
I recently had a talk with Apple Computer's Tom Goguen, director of
server and storage software, about Xsan, the software-based SAN solution
that Apple's putting out in the fall for US$999 per server. I went
into the discussion knowing what a SAN is, but after about five minutes
I felt like I was in short pants and learning my ABCs. I came out
of that meeting with two key bits of knowledge. First, Xsan is really
a SAN file system, which makes SANs useful and accessible beyond their
core capabilities. And second, Xsan is precisely the right way to
turn inexpensive disk arrays (like Xserve RAID) into shared, consolidated
network storage.
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http://www.macpronews.com/2004/0527.html |
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| From
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| Mac
Design Conference |
Anyone here going to the Mac Design Conference
in Chicago? It goes from June 2-4 with pre-conference meetings
on June 1. Last year was the first year, and it was fantastic.
If you attend, let me know and maybe wou could get together
for a lunch. ...
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