Wesley Alan Wright: Notes, Lessons, and Projects

The CMD (Center for Multimedia Development) got hold of a new dual 2.7GHz G5 workstation with 1.5GB RAM and a 250 GB HD.

This provided a clean slate on which to draw a nice, clean lab image, suitable for replication in the CMD and usable as a basis for a similar installation on G5 iMacs in the Art Lab.

Step 1

Unpack new machine, plug it in, turn it on.

Go through setup, create two accounts: an admin (CMD or ART) account with full privileges, and a user account named "customer" (UID=502, member of group customer GID=502)

Step 2

Open Directory access to create ldap configuration:

Click lock to enable changes

Click on LDAPv3 then Configure


Click New…

FIll in: Server address ldap.uvm.edu, encrypt using SSL

Click Continue



Mappings — Select a Template, RC 2307 (Unix)



Searchbase should be dc=uvm,dc=edu



Click Continue, click OK



Give new configuration a name, and click edit



Set Query Times out to 15 seconds,



then click on Search & mappings tab

click on Users. Set search base to dc=uvm,dc=edu

Click Users drop down triangle.

change UniqueID, change map from uidNumber to uvmAltUID



change PrimaryGroupID, map to uvmAltGID



change NFSHomeDirectory, map to uvmAltHomeDir



click ok, ok

Step 3 — Add Admin directory

Create new Folder /Library/Admin

Fill with stuff from

change owner to root:admin

Step 4 — enable loginhook

See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301446

sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook /Library/Admin/cleanout.sh

Step 5 — Add refresh folder

Copied from previous image, named /Library/Management . Contains a

pristine copy of /Users/customer

Step 6 — Install Applications

Install all you lab apps, Fugu, Fetch, Mozilla, FireFox, Realplayer

Step 7 — make image

Boot from Tiger Install DVD, if you can. Attach external firewire drive. Run Disk Utility Select Firewire drive, choose "Restore" option, drag source and target disks. This goes much smoother when you boot from a DVD than trying to restore to Firewire from boot disk.