Changing System Preferences

[hermana]

I am trying to change certain system preferences in my image but when I it runs the postflight script for that package it seems to make those changes on the machine that I am creating the image and not the image itself. I have searched to find what I need in front of my commands to make those changes on image but have been unsuccessful. Here are two examples of some commands I want to change in system preferences:

#Turn On SSH
systemsetup -setremotelogin on

#Turn off Sleep
systemsetup -setsleep never

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-Any help would be appreciated

[Patrick Fergus]

Try these instead:

To enable ssh, in your CustomPKG postflight:
[code]defaults write $3/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ssh Disabled -bool false[/code]

It [i]could[/i] be done at startup time, but most of the time baking the option into the static ASR image is a good thing.

To disable sleep, MCX (WorkGroup Management) policy is best, but the following at the first startup (via a StartupItem or other method) of a freshly imaged machine works as well:
[code]/usr/bin/pmset -a sleep 0[/code]

AFAIK, systemsetup and pmset both only can set settings on the startup disk.

– Patrick

[fender36]

How about ARD? Will kickstart only affect the startup disk or can you run that in a postflight script?

[Patrick Fergus]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: fender36[/u]
>How about ARD? Will kickstart only affect the startup disk or can you run that in a postflight script?[/QUOTE]

ARD’s kickstart can address non-boot volumes. Tack on “-targetdisk $3” onto your kickstart command options (it may need to be the first option after the path to kickstart–I have no proof of that except every example I’ve seen has -targetdisk listed first).

– Patrick

[Rusty Myers]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: fender36[/u][p]How about ARD? Will kickstart only affect the startup disk or can you run that in a postflight script?[/p][/QUOTE]

ARD kickstart command has to be run once the machine has booted. There is a clever launchd script that works well:

https://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=45&showtopic=19122&highlight=ard

I’ve also added my packagemaker project and scripts. I hope I’m not violating any copyrights in doing so…

http://rusty.isa-geek.org/files/ARDactivatelaunchd.zip

You’ll have to change the user name and the name of the launchd item, you should see in the script. Anyway, good luck!

[Rusty Myers]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: Patrick+Fergus[/u][p][QUOTE][u]Quote by: fender36[/u]
>How about ARD? Will kickstart only affect the startup disk or can you run that in a postflight script?[/QUOTE]

ARD’s kickstart can address non-boot volumes. Tack on “-targetdisk $3” onto your kickstart command options (it may need to be the first option after the path to kickstart–I have no proof of that except every example I’ve seen has -targetdisk listed first).

– Patrick[/p][/QUOTE]

Oh, looks like I was wrong!

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