Thursday, September 27, 2012

Extract and view application signing certs on OS X

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To view the certs used to sign executables on OS X binaries, first dump out the cert signing chain: $ codesign -d --extract-certificates /...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Disable Captive Network Support in OS X

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iOS4+ and OS X (10.7+) Devices have a feature called Captive Network Support, which when you connect to an access point tries to download: ...
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Prevent OS X from sleeping while ssh connection is active

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As of mountain lion, you can stop a mac from sleeping while there is an active ssh session: caffeinate -i ssh yourhost.something.com This ...
Monday, September 3, 2012

FileVault2 destroyfvkeyonstandby

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In their filevault2 doco apple describes the destroyfvkeyonstandby setting: ...the FileVault key is stored in EFI to transparently come ou...

Adding items to your start menu on Vista when access has been 'disabled'

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As a windows user it is handy to have some programs start on login, like your mail client, web browser, chat client etc. so it is nice to ha...
Monday, August 27, 2012

Running an unsigned app with Gatekeeper set to 'only apps from the Mac App Store and identified developers'

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So with Gatekeeper set to 'Mac App store and identified developers', how do you actually run an app that isn't signed? If you d...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

OS X: get a list of running launchd jobs

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Here's a nice easy way to get a list of running launchd jobs using PyObjC to talk to the ServiceManagement API : from ServiceManageme...