MacAdministrator

By: Mike Kimball & Mikio Moriyasu - Revised: 2006-06-15 devin

Introduction

An overview of MacAdministrator, a client security and authentication package (and more).

Table Of Contents
  • Overview
    • Mac Administrator, from Hi-Resolution Systems, is a system management tool that conducts a variety of administrative, maintenance, management, and security functions. This includes user authentication operations using existing, commonly available authentication servers; regulating and monitoring network accessibility, usage privileges, and the general activities of users or groups of users; regulating, monitoring, and recording the general activity of individual machines or groups of machines; remotely installing, removing, upgrading, and regulating applications, folders, and files on individual machines or groups of machines.

  • MacAdministrator Customization
    • This page lists some of the configurations, customizations, and modifications we have made to MacAdministrator to suit our environment both from an authentication and a user-service standpoint.

  • MacAdmininstrator and AppleScript
    • This page lists some of the additional functionality we have added through the use of AppleScript applications, run as Agents (either at login, logout, or startup).