draining the world\’s beer supply one pint at a time

Lets say that you don’t really want users to login, just have a valid certificate.  All your Windows boxes do auto-enrollment and get certificates.  This works transparently.
Macs however…  well, lets just say it took a while to realise that the certificate common name should be the UPN, not the username and not the email address.  Now it works just fine   Needless to say, this was a problem with the certificate server’s templates, not with the mac itself.

Ran across the Smackbook hack a little while ago, and after mentioning it to my boss was inspired to modify it very slightly so instead of switching screens, it just screen locks.

Get up to leave your desk and smack your powerbook to turn on the screensaver. That just feels right.

Diff to smack.pl here. Note that this includes the PowerBook and iBook fix… you’ll need to “unfix” it for MacBook Pro.