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As Senior System Engineer at HCS, Keith wears many hats.  He is responsible for a myriad of duties at HCS.  From project management to taking out the trash, Keith is always willing to do the job at hand and never afraid to get his hands dirty.

Keith has the drive and ability to take a project full circle. He is obsessive when it comes to documentation and communication.  He is a self-starter with the ability to think fast on his feet.

Keith has over 20 years in the IT Industry specializing in Apple Technology.  He’s been a member of the HCS family since 2008.

Sep
13

How to set the "Ignore Ownership" for a volume from the terminal

To enable it:

sudo vsdbutil -d /Volumes/VolumeName

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Sep
13

How to disable automatic login via the command line

This will remove the autoLoginUser key from the loginwindow preference:
 
defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow autoLoginUser
 
The password file that holds the user's log-in password is called "kcpassword" and is located in the hidden /etc directory at the root of the hard drive. To remove it, you can run the following command:
 
rm /etc/kcpassword
 
You can run these commands via ARD or combine them into a script.
 

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