Open Directory and .htpasswd

Fascinating! I worked on a project* once that involved a complete rewrite of the command-line utility passwd in order to keep a number of system services including a .htpasswd file in sync with users account passwords. Mac OS X Hints noted this is made simple with Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) and Open Directory.

Article Title	Published
Virtualized Xserver	2008-06-18
Fedora 9 root password mismatch resolution	2008-05-15
Using sandbox-exec on Mac OS X	2008-04-19
Slightly Obscured Volumes in Mac OS X	2008-03-12
subprocess : local system call management with Python	2008-03-11
Twisted TCP Server Example	2008-02-23
What's Your Programming Function?	2008-02-22
qlmanage - Quick Look Server tool	2008-02-02
Installing Django for Leopard with MySQL Support	2008-01-12
Methods of Showing and Hiding files in Mac OS X	2008-01-05
Domain Keys Identified in Mail Technology	2007-12-31
Installing MySQL	2007-12-29
Backup, Backup, Backup	2007-12-27
WebObjects compatibility	2007-12-22
Apple Software TCP and UDP ports	2007-12-22
Menu Control	2007-12-21
base64 image file encoder	2007-12-12
MySQL Database User Access Management	2007-12-06
How are you flying?	2007-12-06
Advice for using HTML in emails	2007-12-02
snmpd - a daemon to respond to SNMP request packets	2007-12-02
snmpdf - display disk space usage on a network entity via SNMP	2007-12-02
Apache .htaccess control	2007-12-01
sw_vers - Mac OS X system version information	2007-11-27
Reset Setup Assistant	2007-11-22
Python Redirect	2007-11-22
RoundCube Webmail	2007-11-22
My introduction to mod_python	2007-11-17
mod_python configuration and debugging	2007-11-17
Mac will always win	2007-11-16
tee - Split standard out to two locations	2007-11-16
vm_stat - show Mach virtual memory statistics	2007-11-14
scselect - Select Mac OS X system configuration "location"	2007-11-14
system_profiler - reports Mac OS X system hardware and software configuration	2007-11-14
service - A simple script to abstract the management of system services	2007-11-14
last - indicates logins of users and ttys	2007-11-14
who - Displays who is on the system	2007-11-14
ps - Search, configure system process status	2007-11-14
top - Display information about system processes	2007-11-14
time - Unix time command execution	2007-11-13
utime - Set file times	2007-11-13
stat - Display file information and status	2007-11-13
utimes - Set file access and modification times	2007-11-13
touch - Change file access and modification times	2007-11-13
Archiving to Unformatted Floppy Disks	2007-11-09
du - Display disk usage statistics	2007-11-09
gzip - Compress or expand file archives	2007-11-09
tar - Packaging files for archiving	2007-11-09
Little Snitch	2007-11-09
GRC's Perfect Paper Passwords	2007-11-08
umount - Unmount file systems	2007-11-08
mount - Mount file systems	2007-11-08
Time Machine for Linux, sort-of	2007-11-07
iCal Dock icon with the current date	2007-11-07
alias	2007-11-03
Getting System Info	2007-11-01
git - change control management	2007-10-31
CSS Animation	2007-10-31
Internet Health Report	2007-10-27
Re-Enabling User Accounts Using pwpolicy	2007-10-26
quotaon - Turn filesystem quotas on and off	2007-10-13
repquota - Summarize quotas for a file system	2007-10-13
dseditgroup - Mac OS X group record manipulation tool	2007-10-10
lookupd - Mac OS X directory information and cache daemon	2007-10-10
netstat - Show network status	2007-10-10
which - locate a program file in the user's path	2007-10-06
port - Mac ports' main command interface	2007-10-06
sftp - Secure file transfer program	2007-10-04
scp - Secure copy program	2007-10-04
chmod - Unix file permissions program	2007-10-02
rsync - Sync program	2007-10-02
dscl - Mac OS X directory services command line tool	2007-09-25
asr - Mac OS X Server disk imaging and restoration tool	2007-09-24
hdiutil - Mac OS X disk images manipulate tool	2007-09-23
disktool - Lists the disks currently known and available on the system	2007-09-23
mail - Send and receive mail via the command line	2007-09-20
launchd.plist - Mac OS X launchd XML item example	2007-08-25
syslogd - Mac OS X system Log server	2007-08-25
syslog.conf - Mac OS X system logger configuration	2007-08-25
changeip - Mac OS X Server IP address migration tool	2007-08-23
mv - Unix file move tool	2007-08-19
rndc - DNS server control utility	2007-08-18
sleep - suspend system execution for an interval of time	2007-08-14
ssh - Secure remote machine interaction	2007-08-14
open - Open files and directories via the command line	2007-08-06
cp - standard Unix copy tool	2007-08-04
cat - Concatenate and print files	2007-08-04
bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell	2007-08-04
launchctl - Mac OS X launchd control utility	2007-08-04
grep - Unix line matching utility	2007-07-28
The Turning Test	2007-07-14
XMLHttpRequest Object (code)	2007-04-12
Comparing tar, cpio, and dump	2007-04-10
Backing Up with the dump Utility	2007-04-09
DNS and Electronic Mail	2007-04-08
Cryptography Basics	2007-04-05
Filesystems and Security	2007-03-31
XMLHttpRequest Object	2007-03-23
JavaScript & the DOM	2007-03-22
Ajax, not an acronym	2007-03-21

Open Directory and .htpasswd

Virtualized Xserver

Media Temple labs has a private beta for what it’s calling Xserve-Virtual . This system has been added quickly added to my MT wish list along with the Django GridContainer which, perhaps I wont need if I move over to a full-on-mirror of my development environment using a virtual OS X Server.

A virtual Mac OS X Leopard Server running on a fully loaded cluster of Xserves virtualized using Parallels Server . I want one, … or three, … yeah that should be enough …. maybe four, for symmetry.

Fedora 9 root password mismatch resolution

Having started my journey down the command-line with Fedora 3, I was excited to try out Fedora 9. The install completed with ease (the first time around) but once I logged onto the system and attempted to configure some of the system settings, my root password didn’t work.

Why? CAPS LOCK bit was set by default during the install process making a different root password.