Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

I had a problem this afternoon with LDAP and SSH on the server that hosts this page, and I’d rather not reveal any more detail than I have to in the interest of security. However, it turned out that something in the LDAP database had become corrupted and prevented LDAP-based users from logging in, even though local netinfo users worked fine.

I backup OpenDirectory on my servers whenever major changes are made. It’s command line intensive, but it’s not difficult. Apple provides the steps to backup and restore this information as part of Workgroup Manager help, but many people aren’t aware of it or aren’t able to find it.

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No operating system is invulnerable. I don’t care what any user of any platform implies or says outright, I’m an IT professional stating what should be an obvious fact. I’m confident that the silent majority of Mac users agree with this premise, regardless of how they may be falsely perceived as inappropriately smug about their immunity from such troubles. The proverbial squeaky wheel minority who don’t comprehend the vulnerability of their computers get the resentful grease of the constantly afflicted, and anyone who participates in that pointless game demonstrates their willful stupidity by definition.

Now that I have that out of the way, I’d like to address the statement released by Symantec yesterday stating that as OS X grows in popularity, it will become a greater target for malware.

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