Comments on: Managing Macs with centralized login scripts

By: Dave Maltby

Dave Maltby — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:53:49 +0000

Thanks Chris,

This is brilliant I made an auto mount and edited your script to check the OS version and then direct the machine to run every script in the appropriate version.

Thanks so much you've made stuff like managing the sidebar and turning off mDNSResponder for bonjour so easy!

Dave Maltby

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:02:53 +0000

Wow what a great idea. It's been a long time since I found some thing as useful as this on the web. I have tried on and off to get MCX login scripts to work via workgroup manager to no avail. Now I know I have different options. I have locked down the screen saver desktop and security preference pane to make sure screen savers kick in with a password prompt to unlock it. The problem I have is trying to prevent users from installing screensavers because it installs them to ~/Library/Screen Savers. Do you know if it is possible to use this method to have a script which denies the user permission to their ~/Library/Screen Savers so they cannot change it from the default flurry one?

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:26:22 +0000

I've implemented this at my workplace and have visited this site 20 times or more in the last month to refer back to the solution. Just noticed there are no comments. Well, a hearty thanks Chris, you made my life so much easier