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One of the folks on the Apple boards mentioned that scutil is capable of doing this. Does that make sense to anyone here?

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This looks interesting, but not being well versed in python, I don’t know where to put the new location’s name in this script.

Anybody able to give a little direction?

Thanks!

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Riiiight. Escaping special characters. There’s my user moment for the day. Thanks!

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Re: stop_NBR_error.pkg

What error were you encountering, and what did you do with this package to stop it?

Thanks in advance!

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: larkost[/u][p]Are you sure you have the right UUID applied to the file, and have you checked to make sure that it is being put in the right place on the target system in (/private)/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users? And have you checked permissions (root-only)?[/p][/QUOTE]

I did not look at any of this. I followed the instructions in the readme file.

[code]From Terminal:
1. type “cd ” then drag the Resources folder from the finder into terminal, this will paste the full path of the resources folder into the shell, then hit enter
2. Type the following:
./shadowHash yourpassword>password_hash[/code]

I did notice this in the readme file:

3. At MINIMUM you need a valid short name and a method to generate password (see GENERATING PASSWORDS below). [b]To ease in validation, it will only accept short names with letters, numbers and underscore that are 1-31 characters.[/b]

(emphasis mine)

Does this apply to hashes created by the shadowHash script, or just to cleartext passwords entered into the USERDATA file? I has assumed this statement applied only to the USERDATA file. My password has several special characters.

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I found clearReg, and using that, I don’t get the setup assistant. It seems you have to preceed your paths with “$3”.

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This will be very valuable to me. Thanks for posting.

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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.

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[quote][color=Violet]How are you deploying your image to your servers?[/color][/quote]

Currently by manual install. The goal is to use Netinstall or Casper Imaging. I’d like to build the image, using the InstaDMG workflow, to include just the OS and Apple patches & updates. I’ll handle additional software and service configuration via Casper policies once the image is laid down.

[QUOTE][color= Violet]5: Insert a basic configuration file that tells the server to get its configuration from Open Directory. You should be able to generate and insert the configurations using the Server Assistant app. Of course, this requires your OD infrastructure to be up before the server you are imaging.[/color][/QUOTE]

Excellent one I hadn’t thought of.

[QUOTE][color= Violet]6: Make a post-boot first-run package with all of the configuration files as the payload to some hidden directory, with a postflight script that will determine the correct set and place it accordingly. You may even be able to use this package with the NetRestore Post-Actions.[/color][/QUOTE]

I don’t think this is necessary, since configuration files are named by MAC addresses, which are reasonably unique. The server just uses the one that matches the hardware and ignores any others. These are also relatively small files. You should be able to get more than 10 configuration files to the megabyte. This is why I was leaning toward a package of all config files until you reminded me of the OD option.

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