Workgroup Manager will be of no help here – it can’t help manage the ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist.

You’ll need to write a script that copies this file from a known location to the user’s home folder, (or perhaps just creates it), and then set this script to run at login, perhaps via a launchd LaunchAgent.

Something like:

[code]
#!/bin/sh

if [ ! -d ~/.MacOSX ]; then
mkdir ~/.MacOSX
fi

defaults write ~/.MacOSX/environment ALIAS_WORKENV “/path/to/working/environment”
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The LaunchAgent plist would look something like:

[code]


Label
com.myorg.loginscript
LimitLoadToSessionType

Aqua

ProgramArguments

/path/to/my/script/to/run/at/login

RunAtLoad
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Do you have multiple users per a system? If so, do their home folders actually reside in /Users?

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: NOEQ[/u][p]
Hi,

Yes, I have multiple users per system. Their home folders reside on an Xserve, not /Users

Thanks[/p][/QUOTE]

I would say create a loop through the home folders since they will have the user’s short name and then execute a command, quick example would be:

[code]
#!/bin/bash

HomePath=`/bin/ls /path/to/homes`

for file in $HomePath ; do

defaults write my command

exit 0
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Or, I would use a log in hook to do it when a user logs in, exmaple:

[code]
!#/bin/bash

# get current logged in user by checking who owns /dev/console

CurrentUser=`/bin/ls -l /dev/console | awk ‘{ print $3 }’`

sudo -u $CurrentUser defaults write /path/to/file

exit 0
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