Setting certain network interfaces to Disabled?

[Chris George]

I’d like to set certain network interfaces… all of them save Ethernet, actually… to be disabled in our InstaDMG produced image.

I see how they are set to be disabled – specifically, within /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist, and a key “__INACTIVE__” is appended to the specific network interface with a boolean value of true. I’m just not sure how I would recreate this within an InstaDMG image.

Any ideas?

[Chris George]

Never mind. I just discovered networksetup -setnetworkserviceenabled.

[knowmad]

Chris,
I may be remembering this wrong but… network setup only works after boot… not in the build train… true?

[Chris George]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: knowmad[/u][p]Chris,
I may be remembering this wrong but… network setup only works after boot… not in the build train… true?
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You’re probably remembering correctly. I don’t know for certain – I ended up just including the networksetup lines into my first start launchd-fired script, and it does exactly what I want it to do.

[larkost]

Inside the image there are no network interfaces defined. Those get setup on first boot by the normal first-run scripts. If you are disabling those (so you don’t get asked to create a “first user”) then you have to do the work yourself with that line.

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