Mac Admins Open Source exists to provide the code signing certificates which are now required due to increased security requirements in macOS, to open source projects which are used in SMB, enterprise and education environments across the globe.
Macadmin Tools
You can find a community maintained list of tools at our sub-wiki page: Macadmin Tools
Notable Projects
Notable projects within the Mac Admins Open Source include:
- Carafe - Carafe is a (fancy) wrapper for Homebrew
- default-browser - A command line utility for setting the default browser for a user on macOS
- Escrow Buddy - A macOS authorization plugin that helps MDM administrators ensure valid FileVault keys are escrowed for all their Macs.
- icongrabber - A fast, lightweight command-line tool to extract high-quality icons from macOS applications.
- InstallApplications - A tool for dynamically using installapplication
- MacAdmins Python - Framework files for use with popular python macadmin toolsets
- Munki Builds - Code signed Munki builds
- Nudge - A tool for encouraging the installation of macOS security updates.
- osquery-extension - An osquery extension for endpoint engineers
- Outset - Automatically process packages and scripts during boot, login, or on demand.
- SOFA - A MacAdmin’s Simple Organized Feed (SOFA) for Apple Software Updates
- SupportCompanion - macOS helper application designed to empower end-users
- UMAD - A tool to help users with pre-existing devices enroll into MDM
You can find us in the #macadmins-opensource channel on the Mac Admins slack or @[email protected] on Mastodon.