Tag: Open Directory


29

Nov 2022

Converting local accounts to mobile accounts

When working with an Xsan volume with Access Control Lists (ACLs) enabled, it is critical that users log into their Macs with the accounts that are in the relevant groups.  We recently helped a customer migrate  several computers from local accounts to mobile accounts while retaining the user’s home folder. We are starting with a Mac with a local administrator account and another local account...

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21

Oct 2022

Changing an Xsan .auth_secret cleanly

We posted previously about making manual profile changes when changing an Xsan’s .auth_secret.  After some more testing, we have confirmed that rebuilding Open Directory also allows us to cleanly change the .auth_secret stored in Open Directory, so a newly generated .mobileconfig file will connect clients without modification.  To do this we will need to stop the volume, remove all clients, remove the backup mdc, and...

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17

Oct 2022

Rebuilding Xsan Open Directory while keeping Xsan config

In a previous article we covered rebuilding your Xsan completely by saving the /Library/Preferences/Xsan directory and using that to populate rebuilt MDCs.  We recently had a situation where a backup MDC would not rejoin the Open Directory as a replica after a software update.  As this was supposed to be a quick, safe update we really didn’t want to have to erase and reinstall everything....

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