Creating accounts after binding

[cgaraffa]

Greetings all,

I’m using dscl to bind computers (running 10.4.3) to our Active Directory server after they’ve been cloned, and am looking to expand that. To make things truly automatic, I’m put together a small Cocoa app that takes care of 90% of our system configuration. One minor detail that I’d really like taken care of is creating the local user account, instead of requiring whoever’s logged in to the computer to create it. This way we know the settings are correct.
dscl doesn’t seem like it can do this. I know how to add a local account, but can’t seem to find anything on adding a DS-based account. Has anyone been able to accomplish this? Thanks!

[cgaraffa]

MacTroll wrote:

What kind of account are you looking to create here? You mention local and then DS-based?
Sorry, shouldn’t really have mentioned local at all. All of our accounts are authenticated via Active Directory. What I’d like to automate is the creation of the home directory, etc, that happens the first time someone logs in using an AD account on the Mac.

[QUOTE BY= MacTrollAlso, care to share the source to your Cocoa app? 😀
If I can get permission from my employer, I’d be glad to! At the very least, I’m sure that I’ll be able to share some of the more… interesting… parts.

[cgaraffa]

MacTroll wrote:

What kind of account are you looking to create here? You mention local and then DS-based?
Sorry, shouldn’t really have mentioned local at all. All of our accounts are authenticated via Active Directory. What I’d like to automate is the creation of the home directory, etc, that happens the first time someone logs in using an AD account on the Mac.

MacTroll wrote:

Also, care to share the source to your Cocoa app? 😀
If I can get permission from my employer, I’d be glad to! At the very least, I’m sure that I’ll be able to share some of the more… interesting… parts.

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