setting DVD region code

[pteeter]

I found this old thread…

[url]https://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?forum=29&showtopic=9668&highlight=region%20code[/url]

Anyone have any further ideas on how best to preset the DVD Region Code for use with InstaDMG?

I haven’t even investigated it yet. I will, I will.

Just wondering if anyone has already looked into it.

[pteeter]

OK, I believe you. Though research turns up some fun firmware hacks to make an optical drive region free. 😈

So the section of /etc/authorization would be (in Leopard):
[code]
system.device.dvd.setregion.initial

class
user
comment
Used by the DVD player to set the region code the first time. Note that changing the region code after it has been set requires a different right (system.device.dvd.setregion.change).
group
admin
shared

[/code]
So to work around this for non-admin users, change the class to ‘allow’ and lose the ‘group’ and ‘shared’ keys?

Anyone got suggestions for editing this – payload free + postflight script? Or maybe best practice is to copy in a pre-built file?

[Patrick Fergus]

pteeter,

I [i]think[/i] I’m doing this with a payload free package, but it’s at work and I’m not. This turned up from a Google search, so YMMV:

[url]http://jeffstrauss.com/?p=54[/url][code]#!/bin/sh
“$3″/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c “Set :rights:system.device.dvd.setregion.initial:class allow” “$3″/etc/authorization[/code]Tomorow I’ll double-check what I’m actually doing.

– Patrick

[pteeter]

You plistbuddy stalwarts.

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy it is.

Good call.

[Patrick Fergus]

Yep–that’s what we’re doing with our build.

FWIW I’m more comfortable with defaults, but defaults won’t touch anything beyond the simplest plists.

– Patrick

[mleacy]

Somewhat off-topic, but does anyone know where to find a list of the valid keys?

I’d love to get some granular control and pick and choose what non-admins can do.

[Patrick Fergus]

This article has some information:

[url]https://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20041027093216241[/url]

However, we’d love a lot more granularity as well.

– Patrick

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