Concepts Archives

QR Code link idea: (entrance hall) information sheet for airbnb guest

January 21, 2023Smart HomeSmart Home

My friend has an Airbnb; so I have created an instruction sheet (pdf) file. Complete with Wi-Fi password, trash days, fire extinguisher locations, emergency contact information etc. I put this…

Creating Public Certificate for Jamf Pro Server

January 5, 2023SecurityGotcha!, Jamf Pro, openssl, PKI, setup, Signing Certificate, ssl

Using OpenSSL to Create a Certificate Keystore for Tomcat Link: https://docs.jamf.com/technical-articles/Using_OpenSSL_to_Create_a_Certificate_Keystore_for_Tomcat.html Step 1: Creating a Public Certificate for Your Jamf Pro Server To create and configure a public certificate for…

Jamf Compliance Editor

November 2, 2022macOS Security Compliance Project (mSCP)app, Jamf Pro, mSCP, NIST

Jamf Compliance Editor is a tool that provides macOS system administrators with an easy way to establish and manage compliance baselines on their fleet of macOS devices. This tool is…

public key certificate Trust Stores

August 29, 2022Securitylink, PKI

Trust Stores This page provides a high-level overview of PKI trust stores (also called certificate stores or key stores). It also has a list of public trust stores and settings.…

mSCP jamf scripts

August 29, 2022Apple, macOS Security Compliance Project (mSCP)automation, Jamf Pro, MDM, NIST, Security, STIG

Bob Gendler one of the macOS Security Compliance Project (mSCP) Authors has posted some (FANTASTIC) scripts that will help integrate your mSCP project into a jamf instance. This will help…

Time Synchronization

July 13, 2022Code10.15 - macOS Catalina, STIG, timestamp

To check the state of the system, run the following command(s): /bin/launchctl list | /usr/bin/grep -c com.apple.timed If the result is not 1, this is a finding. Remediation Description Perform…

Application lists and downloads up-to-date Big Sur and Monterey Install Assistants

July 9, 2022Codeinstall, macOS 11, macOS 12

this app has worked for downloading the Monterey Install Assistant before, but now it does it better added an icon for Monterey and it should now use the correct software…

cat – concatenate command

July 3, 2022Codecat, deduplication, sort

NAME cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output SYNOPSIS cat [OPTION]... [FILE]... Here Document: the here document syntax can be used with the cat command: cat >…

scp: secure copy

July 3, 2022CodeCopy, macOS, scp

NAME scp -- secure copy (remote file copy program) Copy remote files to local machine: This example using admin as the admin user to login to host. This will prompt…

Convert timestamps to dates in Bash?

May 21, 2022Codetimestamp

date -r date -r 1267619929 Current timestamp: date +"%s" Links: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2371248/how-to-convert-timestamps-to-dates-in-bash https://linuxconfig.org/convert-timestamp-to-date