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idea: misuse software update for internal software distribution?
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hi!
i’m still looking for an automatic software distribution to keep track of software updates of all mac in our network. a long time ago we used filewave which was good and is now ported to osx. but something like apples software update would be way better. do somebody know how it works and if there is a way to misuse it for your own purposes? apples offical solutions for this are still lame in my opinion...
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After a security hole was discovered whereby you could spoof the source of the updates, Apple updated the entire Software Update thing to include much much better checking and encryption and whatnot. I think it might be possible to do that within a LAN (where you could run your own DNS server to trick SU), but not over the internet.
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Originally posted by wataru:
After a security hole was discovered whereby you could spoof the source of the updates, Apple updated the entire Software Update thing to include much much better checking and encryption and whatnot. I think it might be possible to do that within a LAN (where you could run your own DNS server to trick SU), but not over the internet.
that would be perfekt. think about Software Update telling you that Photoshop has been updated :-)
i see this for lan only...
but how does it work???
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I'm confused, are you wanting a Software Update like application to check for your 3rd Party application updates on your computer?
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I think he is looking for a way to use Software Update to deploy software on a local network. The stuff to do it is there in OS X, it's just someone has to figure out how to set up an alternate software update server.
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Originally posted by OpenStep:
I think he is looking for a way to use Software Update to deploy software on a local network. The stuff to do it is there in OS X, it's just someone has to figure out how to set up an alternate software update server.
yes, sorry if i’m not onpoint, but that’s what i ’m looking for 
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thanks, looks promising, but seems more like a simple WAN based tracker and the url don’t work anymore.
i think, Software Update would make a great solution to distribute software (and more) as admin in your LAN. so when I release photoshop 7 on the Software Update Server everybody in the LAN will get the update instantly...
Software Update seems to be a great Distribution System for admins in LANs...
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You say
apples offical solutions for this are still lame in my opinion...
but what is wrong with Network Install?
Automate installation with Network Install
Say you're a systems administrator tasked with performing operating system installations, system upgrades, and application installations for your organization, How much time - and money - could you save by performing all of those installations over the network? Without running from one computer to the next. Or creating who-knows-how-many-CDs for distribution to the people working on those computers.
How's that possible? Simple, actually. Network Install lets you create a single server-based disk image of the software you want to install. When users on the network start their computers, their Macs will automatically 'discover' the disk image on the server and install the software. Network Install is also the perfect tool for pushing operating system upgrades out to your users, such as Mac OS X 10.2 ? whether from Mac OS 9 or an earlier version of Mac OS X.
Best of all, you can script the entire procedure. That proves very handy if a series of installations need to be done in a particular order, if you want to force a Mac client to reboot when the installation is complete, or if you?d like to run diagnostics on a suite of computers on your network.
Or do you not have / not want to buy OS X Server?
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Originally posted by Mithras:
You say
but what is wrong with Network Install?
Or do you not have / not want to buy OS X Server?
well, sounds good but it isn’t free. os x server is too much for me for that single task... nevertheless i will dig deeper into this... thanks!
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