James Reynolds, University of Utah
Track: System Administration
Date: Wednesday, October 27
Time: 11:35am - 12:20pm
Location: Winchester
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ULabMin is a collection of scripts, modifications, tools, graphics, and more that the University of Utah's Student Computing Labs uses on their student, staff, faculty and special purpose Mac OS X computers.
These scripts and modifications perform maintenance tasks such as automating regular hard disk updates and cleanup using the radmind command line tools the iHook application. The scripts allow administrators to easily run radmind by double clicking an icon, logging in as a specific user, remotely using Apple Remote Desktop, Timbuktu, or ssh, and automating radmind using cron. The scripts keep logs and report the status to a database and display it on the loginwindow and on the menubar.
The scripts manage user home folders so that each user will have a "clean" home folder at login, configured exactly how the admin wants it. This ensures a secure and working home folder for each user. In addition to this, a lost and found is managed so that users can still access old files from previous sessions.
The scripts also control many other customizations and issues, including self-security audits, managing printer settings, and controlling display resolution.Finally the scripts have the ability to also turn a computer into a workstation, an internet kiosk or into a slideshow presentation kiosk.
This talk will show the features of ULabMin, how to install it, and how to configure it.
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