Downloads for Apple Developers

https://developer.apple.com/download/more/

Keyboard Shortcuts

There are many useful keyboard shortcuts that I've come across over time, and I try to include them here so they don't get forgotten.

Put mac to sleep

OPTION + COMMAND + POWER

Put display to sleep

CTRL + SHIFT + POWER

Resource: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236

Show hidden files and folders in Finder

CMD + SHIFT + .

Resource:
https://ianlunn.co.uk/articles/quickly-showhide-hidden-files-mac-os-x-mavericks/

Go to folder in Finder

CMD + SHIFT + G

Resource:
https://blog.bejarano.io/fixing-cron-jobs-in-mojave.html

Lock Screen

CTRL + CMD + Q

Mirror display (or stop mirroring)

CMD + F1

OSX Terminal Stuff

SSH

Check ssh service status

sudo systemsetup -getremotelogin

Enable SSH

sudo systemsetup -setremotelogin on

Disable SSH

sudo systemsetup -setremotelogin off

Resource: http://osxdaily.com/2016/08/16/enable-ssh-mac-command-line/

Disable screensharing

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.screensharing.plist

Create account

sudo dscl . -create /Users/niceuser
sudo dscl . -create /Users/niceuser UserShell /bin/bash
sudo dscl . -create /Users/niceuser RealName "Super Nice Guy"   
sudo dscl . -create /Users/niceuser UniqueID *unique id*
sudo dscl . -create /Users/niceuser PrimaryGroupID 80 # Make user part of Admin group
sudo dscl . -passwd /Users/niceuser
sudo dscl . -append /Groups/admin GroupMembership niceuser

You can create a home directory for the user if you'd like as well:
sudo mkdir /Users/niceuser

Resources:
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/add-user-terminal-mac-os-x-screen-sharing-31846.html
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8248721

Remove account

sudo dscl . -delete /Users/niceuser

Delete the home directory if you created it:
sudo rm -rf /Users/niceuser

Resource: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/310308/delete-a-standard-user-from-mac-os

List users

sudo dscl . list /Users | grep -v "^_"

Take screenshot

Output to /var/tmp/.tmp

screencapture -x /var/tmp/.tmp

Get version of OSX Running

sw_vers -productVersion

Resource: https://www.tecmint.com/send-a-message-to-logged-users-in-linux-terminal/

Mount NFS share

sudo mkdir /mnt/name_of_system_folder
sudo mount -t nfs -o rsize=65536,wsize=65536,intr,hard,tcp,locallocks,rdirplus,readahead=128 system.com:<path to volume mount> /mnt/name_of_system_folder

Resources:
https://care.qumulo.com/hc/en-us/articles/115008111268-Recommended-NFS-Mount-Options
https://willhaley.com/blog/mount-nfs-share-on-a-mac/

Unmount NFS share

sudo umount -Af -t nfs,smbfs

Resources:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/292043/how-to-unmount-nfs-when-server-is-gone
https://superuser.com/questions/249611/how-to-forceably-unmount-stuck-network-share-in-mac-os-x

Automount an NFS share in /Volumes

https://gist.github.com/L422Y/8697518

SSHFS

Install:

brew cask install osxfuse
brew install sshfs

Mount remote system:

mkdir /mnt/remote_system 
cd /mnt/remote_system
sudo sshfs -o allow_other,defer_permissions user@remote_system.com:/ /mnt/remote_system

Resources:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-mount-remote-file-systems-over-ssh
https://howchoo.com/g/ymmxmzlmndb/how-to-install-sshfs

Example plist

This can be used to run a job on an interval. To do so:

Copy the file to /Library/LaunchDaemons
Make sure it's owned by root (sudo chown root job.plist)
Make sure wheel is set for the group (sudo chgrp wheel job.plist)

To load the file to the running daemons, run sudo launchctl load job.plist
To remove the file from the running daemons, run sudo launchctl unload job.plist

Information about the job can be found in /var/log/system.log.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>

    <key>Label</key>
        <string>not.an.evil.job</string>
    
    <key>Program</key>
        <string>/Users/notabackdooruser/not_evil.py</string>
    
    <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
        <string>/Users/notabackdooruser/</string>
    
    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
        <dict>
            <key>Hour</key>
                <integer>01</integer>
            <key>Minute</key>
                <integer>22</integer>
        </dict>    

    <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
        <dict>
	    <key>http_proxy</key>
	        <string>http://companyproxy.com:80</string>
        </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

Screen sharing via finder

Open Finder
Ctrl-k
vnc://target_ip

Resource: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100927085636535

Permission denied for creating cronjobs

Give Full Disk Access to iterm (if you're using it) or terminal via these instructions
Relaunch the terminal and run this command to test if the issue has been resolved: ls ~/Library/Messages

Resources:
https://serverfault.com/questions/954586/osx-mojave-crontab-tmp-tmp-x-operation-not-permitted
http://osxdaily.com/2018/10/09/fix-operation-not-permitted-terminal-error-macos/

You may need to do this bit of horribleness as well (obviously not ideal from a security standpoint):
https://blog.bejarano.io/fixing-cron-jobs-in-mojave.html

Store SSH Key in Keychain

ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/[your-private-key]

Resource:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/48502/how-can-i-permanently-add-my-ssh-private-key-to-keychain-so-it-is-automatically/250572#250572?newreg=1026a7ae1a72435ea5dca92ea1dbe053

Get CPU thread count

sysctl -a |grep cpu.thread_count | grep -Po '(\d+)'

Apple Notes