display_manager
An open-source Python library which can modify your Mac's display settings manually or automatically. (by univ-of-utah-marriott-library-apple)
firmware_password_manager
A Python script to help Macintosh administrators manage the firmware passwords of their computers. (by univ-of-utah-marriott-library-apple)
| display_manager | firmware_password_manager | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | |
| 234 | 150 | |
| 1.3% | 0.7% | |
| 3.8 | 0.0 | |
| 9 months ago | almost 3 years ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
display_manager
Posts with mentions or reviews of display_manager.
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How would you manage display settings
Best option is to configure display settings at login. Display Manager can help with this.
firmware_password_manager
Posts with mentions or reviews of firmware_password_manager.
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and similar projects.
- Help with Mac BASH script to change firmware password
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Script to check firmware password and update to new password
I highly recommend you look into something like https://github.com/univ-of-utah-marriott-library-apple/firmware_password_manager. It will let you start managing your firmware password through packages if you want so you can push out changes to your entire fleet and supply all known passwords and it will update to your new password easily.
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How to manage EFI password on MacOS ?
I currently recommend https://github.com/univ-of-utah-marriott-library-apple/firmware_password_manager as a fallback cause you can easily rotate your passwords using patch management procedures using this and not have to worry about which password it was using.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing display_manager and firmware_password_manager you can also consider the following projects:
munkiadmin - macOS app for managing Munki repositories
samloader - Download Samsung firmware from official servers
nvx - Simple script running nvidia-settings based on your configured layout with anti tearing option
outset - Automatically process packages, profiles, and scripts during boot, login, or on demand.
nodebox-pyobjc - Create 2D visuals in Python.
Mac-Set-Default-Apps - A utility to change default applications in macOS
slackchannel2pdf - Export the text contents of any Slack channel to a PDF file.