Createuser pkg — what am I doing wrong??

[andyinindy]

I cannot seem to figure out the createuser script/package. It creates a user, but it creates it on the machine that I am using to create the image, not in the image! Here is my script, which I use packagemaker to wrap into a pkg:

[code]
#!/bin/bash

dscl . -create Users/infores
dscl . -create Users/infores home /Users/infores
dscl . -create Users/infores name infores
dscl . -create Users/infores realname “Information Resources”
dscl . -create Users/infores shell /bin/bash
dscl . -create Users/infores uid 501
dscl . -create Users/infores gid 501
dscl . -passwd Users/infores “password”

dseditgroup -o edit -a infores -t user -n /Local/Default admin

ditto -rsrcFork “/System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/” “/Users/infores”
chown -R infores:admin /Users/infores

exit 0
[/code]

Please help!

[larkost]

Why not use the one that comes with InstaDMG? That one already has all of this figured out for you.

[andyinindy]

I can’t seem to find it. Where is this script??

[larkost]

Assuming you are using a relatively recent version of InstaDMG, then it is in InstaDMG/AddOns/createUser.

[andyinindy]

I am using 1.4b4 and do not see this… have I somehow downloaded the wrong version??

[Rusty Myers]

You are correct, it wasn’t included, here is the link
[url]https://www.afp548.com/filemgmt/index.php?id=76[/url]
Rusty

[Jaimegago]

And if you want to know what was wrong in your script, you need to use $3 as your mount point of your destination volume not / which is the booted volume. So your script should have look like this
dscl . -create $3/Users/infores
dscl . -create $3/Users/infores home $3/Users/infores
…
When you install a script via a package the target voilume of your package is passed by the installer to your script as $3.

Much more info here http://s.sudre.free.fr/Stuff/PackageMaker_Howto.html

Give a man a fish…

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