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I have a 3Com Tornado Network card, that I want to use in my beige g3 DT... But there were no drivers for it. Checked OpenDarwin.org and oh: http://www.opendarwin.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/Apple3Com3C90x/ They do exist ;) But apparantly for the x86 port of Darwin. So here is...

Does anyone know how to change a password via perl? I am using a Mac OS X box as a fileserver, and am looking ofr a way to change a password via a remote interface.... I know how to secure it properly... just not how to actually change it. Anyone know of a script already? or know...

Does anyone know how to add an item to: /library/StartupItems/ I want this script: /usr/myscript/script to run whenever my computer starts up. I don't want to have it run on login, but on startup, so StartupItems is the only way to go.

I want to prevent users from downloading Applications from the web and running them.... Most installers in OS X require an admin password (which is good) but many still don't use installers and are just .sit files. Can I CHMOD a users home directory so that the user can't run applications...

I wonder if anyone knows how to do this: I didn't want to give anyone the admin password to switch the startup disk, but they need to do it, so the easy solution is an apple script..... So, here is what I wrote: tell application "Terminal" do script with command "sudo...

Does anyone know how to add a user for FTP access... here is what I want to do: I have one box with Mac OS X, that I want to have a user: user1:password who can only access the directory /Users/ BUT can access any users files. Does anyone know how to do this?

I currently have a script as follows: set theFolder to "Macintosh HD:System Folder:Preferences:" Now not everyone has their startup disk titled "Macintosh HD" does anyone know how to do it so that no matter what the name of the startup disk is, it will set "theFolder" to the path to...