MAC OSX

OSX 10.4.7 August Security Update

This update includes a new version of SSH (OpenSSH 4.2) which uses a new mechanism for doing Kerberos authentication. The new version fixes a weakness in the old version. Unfortunately, the two mechanisms don't inter-operate and there is no backwards compatibilty provided. This means that the update breaks using Kerberos/SSH to most all FNAL machines and MSUHEP machines. Note that telnet will still work to FNAL (not allowed to MSUHEP machines). June 2007 - a new version of OpenSSH server that

See http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A1=ind0608&L=macusers

A copy of OpenSSH 3.8.1p1 is available from http://security.fnal.gov/tools/OpenSSH_3.8.1p1_ppc.tar.gz You can download that tarball, and copy the files frim bin to /usr/bin on your mac. (You may wish to preserve the existing files on your mac first.)

sudo cp OpenSSH_3.8.1p1/bin/* /usr/bin 

Local Pages

• MacOSXLoginScripts
• MacOSXX11 Using X11 on OSX
• MacOSXKerb Kerberos on OSX works very nicely
• MacOSXManualBackup use simple UNIX tools (rsync and ssh) to manually backup your home area to a remote machine
• MacOSXUtils native OSX utilities
• MacOSClone Clone (Ghost) an OS X system from one drive to another
• MacOSXDebugging the OSX equivalents of ldd and strace are otool and ktrace
• MacOSXFaqs Some short OSX usage FAQs
• MacOSXNewSetup Setting up a new machine
• MacOSXSoftware Some useful software
• MacOSXLeopard Upgrading to and using 10.5 Leopard release of OSX
• RootOnLeopard Installing ROOT on OSX 10.5

-- TomRockwell - 25 May 2006