CreateUser and ClearReg.pkg

[nobrainer]

I was having problems with the special characters as well….

I just did a test image and finally got them accepted.

for the password hash I had to use escape characters – w/o quotes

example:
./shadowhash p\@\$\$w0rd>password_hash

Maybe this can be added to the documentation? I would imagine anybody doing this for a company (or paranoid people) would be using “special” characters. It could save people a TON of time (in my case days).

[sgstuart]

Hi nobrainer,
That is good information that you only need to put the “\” in front of it to make it work. I agree it would be good to add that to the documentation. This script is “owned” by someone else, but I think updating the documentation would be okay. I will look into that tomorrow.

Thanks,
Steven Stuart

[alantrewartha]

This might be relevant, but the standard create_user package I have been using for over a year now has stopped working on my DeployStudio workflow. And this is since the DS netboot image was updated to the latest Snow Leopard (to allow recent macbooks to boot).

so could it be that the script simply fails on recent SL images. when i get a moment to troubleshoot I’m going to try stepping through the main script in the pkg

EDIT: oh ignore me, I thought I had updated this specific package to the SL version of createUser. apparently not. several million negative points to me.

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