Multiple createUser packages

[Per Olofsson]

I was about halfway through posting about how createUser fails and installs accounts on my admin workstation instead of the deployment image, when I found this little gem in instadmg.bash:
[code]# Bundle identifier codes to exclude from the chroot system
CHROOT_EXCLUDED_CODES=(“edu.uc.daap.createuser.pkg”)[/code]
That explains why it’s failing, since I changed the bundle identifier – I’m creating multiple accounts, with one package for each account, and there were complains in the installer logs (since edu.uc.daap.createuser.pkg had already been installed).

So, what’s the correct way to install multiple users?

[larkost]

That exclude is a hack on my part… it is (low) on my list to create a “createUser” factory so we aren’t going about this in a hackish way, and re-do it so it is more complete. But since createUser’s actions all happen in the scripts anyways, you can go ahead and use the same id for multiple installs. You just won’t get nice receipts for it (which you wouldn’t anyways, since we are not injecting the script-changed files).

[Per Olofsson]

Alright, adding my bundles to the exclude array works fine for now. A slightly cleaner way might be to add flags to the package filename (e.g. createUser (nochroot).pkg), so you don’t have to edit instadmg.bash.

On a related note, can you confirm that client installers created by ARD (bundle ID com.apple.pkg.RemoteDesktopClient) also need to be excluded from chroot?

[Ferry]

I have been wrestling with the same issue.
How do you add more bundles to the exclude array?

[Per Olofsson]

instadmg.bash, CHROOT_EXCLUDED_CODES, line 85:
[code]Index: instadmg.bash
===================================================================
— instadmg.bash (revision 245)
+++ instadmg.bash (working copy)
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
ALLOWED_INSTALLER_DISK_NAMES=(“Mac OS X Install Disc 1.dmg” “Mac OS X Install DVD.dmg”)

# Bundle identifier codes to exclude from the chroot system
-CHROOT_EXCLUDED_CODES=(“edu.uc.daap.createuser.pkg”)
+CHROOT_EXCLUDED_CODES=(“edu.uc.daap.createuser.pkg” “se.gu.createUser_admin.pkg” “se.gu.createUser_hfds.pkg” “se.gu.kickstart_ARD.pkg”)

#
HOST_MOUNT_FOLDER=” # Enclosing folder for the base image mount point, and othes if not using chroot
Index: AddOns/createUser/README.txt
===================================================================[/code]

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