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Mac® OS X Security
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Mac® OS X Security

by Bruce Potter, Preston Norvell, Brian Wotring
May 2003
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
9h 23m
English
New Riders
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Chapter 9. Enterprise Host Configuration

 

Marge: “Well, Homer, I have to admit, you created something people really love. You truly are an artist.”

Homer: “No, I’m just a nut who couldn’t build a barbecue.”

 
 --The Simpsons

Deploying Mac OS X in a small office setting is dramatically different from configuring tens or hundreds of workstations in a lab environment. In a small office, the threats are generally from the network, not from a malicious user sitting at the console. There are not issues regarding distributed authentication mechanisms, and there is usually not a need to create arbitrary connections between hosts; any relationships between machines are generally well-known and static.

However, in a lab or corporate environment, the situation ...

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