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19 Jun 2009Sometimes the diradmin account or some other admin account’s password becomes corrupted resulting in you unable to log into the Open Directory with admin rights. To reset the password to fix the corruption run the following commands:
sudo mkpassdb -setpassword 0×484f162b4b8b45670000000200000002
where the long hex string is the <slot id> for the diradmin account. You can find [...]
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18 Mar 2008In Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger some system preferences were unique to a particular computer and so were named using a naming convention that included the MAC address of the first network device in the computer (en0). In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard this naming convention was changed to use a different unique identifier other [...]
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15 Mar 2008This script uses otool -L to determine and print all dynamic library dependencies of a given executable or library file recursively and you use it like this:
$ checklibs.pl /bin/ls
/bin/ls:
/usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
[...]
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