How to manage Gatekeeper via Command Line.
Following on from John’s Gatekeeper Podcast. I thought I would blog about something that I’ve been asked about a few times whilst teaching Apple’s Support Essentials course which is, how to remotely manage Gatekeeper using Command Line. As John mentioned in his podcast, the spctl command line tool manages the security assessment policy subsystem which […]
Using Terminal to Set File Permissions
As most of you will know Mac OS X is a UNIX-based Operating System based upon the Mach Kernel (see here). As such a lot of the functionality found in UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems, and BSD for that matter, is present and in most cases identical, as well as the binaries. The GUI just […]
How to Make the Recovery Partition Visible in Disk Utility
While teaching a 10.7 Support Essentials course today, one of the delegates asked if it was possible to make the recovery partition visible in Disk Utility in case of any corruption that may need to be repaired. If you are happy with using the Command Line, I am happy to report that this can easily […]
Restoring the Library Folder in Lion
By Richard Mallion In Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), the Library folder in your home folder is now hidden. There are a couple of ways gain access to it. To quickly browse your Library folder, open a Finder window and click the Go menu. Then press and hold Option . You’ll see a new entry […]