- MacOS Mojave is a brilliant upgrade to the Mac operating system, bringing lots of great new features like Dark Mode and the new App Store and News apps. However, it’s not without its problems. In the weeks since its release, early adopters have reported numerous teething issues, many of them affecting the performance of their Macs.
- Note: See Allow your ESET product access to user protected data on macOS 10.14 Mojave for step-by-step instructions. The ESET anti-malware icon appears in the upper-right corner of your screen. Scan your computer. ESET constantly monitors system activity and automatically scans files that have been downloaded from the web or email.
Macs can also access a URL to get a certificate, Macs in an Active Directory environment would get a certificate as part of joining AD. MDM solutions for Macs would generally support pushing a profile defining a SCEP enrolment - which would be nothing to do with MDM enrolment.
If you merely want to push a certificate without SCEP then emailing it to a user is an option of providing a URL for the user to download it is another, of storing it on a file server yet a third.
Ironically Microsoft's SCEP server seems to be the one best supporting Macs and best supported by Macs. I think the Cisco one should work and I believe now that EJBCA will work. (EJBCA used not to work with Macs but after I reported a bug about this to the developers they claim it is now fixed as per issue ECA-3364 and incorporated in EJBCA version 6.0.4)
For WiFi, one can push a profile to both include the WiFi settings and either a certificate or a SCEP configuration. (I presume you are referring to 802.1x)
Earlier this year we received a number of reports from users that were unable to delete, move or rename documents on a new SMB file share. Eventually we were able to narrow it down enough to be able to consistently duplicate what they were seeing. It appears the SMB client in Mac OS X (10.11, 10.12 and possibly others) is overly aggressive with file locks. The Mojave 10.14.1 update does NOT install properly on unsupported machines, and could result in an unbootable OS. If you want to install the 10.14.1 update (and are not currently running 10.14.1), perform the following steps:. Download the latest version of Mojave Patcher. Download the installer using the Tools menu of Mojave Patcher. Nov 14, 2018 Support for System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) for Mac and Linux (all versions) ends on December 31, 2018. Availability of new virus definitions for SCEP for Mac and SCEP for Linux may be discontinued after the end of support. This discontinuation may occur without notice.
For no good reason that I can see even though OS X and Server.app do contain a SCEP server which is used to enrol in to Profile Manager, this SCEP server cannot be used for general purpose SCEP usage. I did file an enhancement request over this but so far it has not been addressed. Perhaps if some others do the same?
May 18, 2015 7:59 AM
You can use macOS to renew your certificate enrollment with your configuration profile via two methods:
- Simple certificate enrollment protocol (SCEP), which often uses a Microsoft certificate authority (CA) Network Device Enrollment Service (NDES).
- DCOM/RPC (ADCertificate), which relies on a Microsoft Windows Server Certificate Authority (CA).
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About certificates
In macOS, you can get and renew your certificate with the same profile. macOS alerts you as a certificate nears its expiration date:
- When a certificate is 15 days from its expiration date, you get a reminder.
- When a certificate is less than 15 days from its expiration date, a banner appears in Notification Center. This notification repeats once a day until the certificate expires or you update or remove it.
To update a certificate, in the Profiles pane of System Preferences, click the certificate profile, then click Update.
Renew with ADCertificate
In the Profiles pane of System Preferences, click the Update button to create a new private key. The new private key is used to sign the certificate request that’s sent to the CA. The new certificate from the CA is paired with the new private key.
The original certificate and private key that were created when the profile was installed stay in the keychain.
Learn how to automatically renew certificates delivered via a configuration profile.
Renew with SCEP
Click the Update button in the Profiles pane of System Preferences. The current private key is used to sign the certificate request that’s sent to the CA. When CA renews the certificate, it pairs it with the original private key.
The original certificate that was created when the profile was installed stays in the keychain.
Renew through the command line
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In macOS 10.12 Sierra and later, you can renew the ADCertificate and SCEP profile-generated certificates with the
/usr/bin/profiles
command. Use the following syntax in the command line:profiles -W -p <profileIdentifier value>
You can find the 'profileIdentifier' value by listing the installed profiles with the -L command argument.
Set up renewal notifications
Yosemite and later versions of macOS display a daily notification when the certificate has less than 14 days until it expires.
You can change the daily notification time with two configuration parameters called CertificateRenewalTimeInterval and CertificateRenewalTimePercent:
Parameter | Application Method | Allowed Values | Value Type |
CertificateRenewalTimeInterval | Profile Manager configuration profile: ADCert or SCEP | Greater than 14 days, or less than the maximum lifetime of the certificate in days | Days (integer) |
CertificateRenewalTimePercent | /usr/sbin/defaults | Between 1 and 50 | Percentage (integer) |
You can apply the CertificateRenewalTimePercent with syntax like this:
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You can use these two settings together:
- If CertificateRenewalTimeInterval is defined in the profile, use that value.
- If CertificateRenewalTimeInterval isn't defined in the profile, but is defined on the client, use the value of the CertificateRenewalTimePercent.
If neither value is defined, the time interval is set to 14 days.
Learn more
The profile you used to create the ADCert or SCEP certificate might be removed. If you use Mavericks or a later version of macOS, the most recent certificate and private key are removed from the keychain, but the original certificate isn’t. You have to delete it.
The profile you used to get the certificate might have other payloads linked to the certificate. Examples of payloads include Network: EAP-TLS, VPN: OnDemand certificate-based authentication. When the certificate is renewed, the dependent configurations are updated for the new certificate.
After a certificate is renewed, the installed profile is associated with the new certificate. When a certificate is renewed, no additional profiles are installed or created.