[Casper] Changing the default startup/login screen via a policy?

[Eric Young]

my wayback machine's got a busted thing-a-ma-bob :-)   I already have  
a goodly portion deployed thanks to an almost literal drop dead date.   
Plus I like the freedom that adding it as a policy gives, so when the  
powers that be decide it's ugly or whatnot I can change it out.



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Eric Young
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On Aug 21, 2008, at 11:02 AM, Eric Winkelhake wrote:

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> you could just build it into your os image that is deployed.  unless  
> you really need to change existing machines.
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> I continued to pick at this after posting the question.  The  
> DefaultDesktop.jpg is the picture that appears at the log in screen  
> (it used to be called Aqua blue pre 10.5) It is an oddball file  
> because you cannot just swap it out on a booted system, since it  
> lives in CoreServices.  So it has to be renamed (with sudo), then  
> the new file needs to be moved in and renamed and set for the right  
> owner and permissions.
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> I setup a policy with two parts.  The first part delivers a payload  
> to the regular desktop pictured folder in the /Library folder... you  
> could use an existing pic just as easily.  I then have the policy  
> execute a script that runs the following CLi commands After the new  
> pic is in place then trigger a reboot.
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> mv /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg  
> DefaultDesktop.jpg.OLD
> cp /Library/Desktop\ Pictures/tobedefaultdesktop.jpg /System/Library/ 
> CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg
> chown root:wheel /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg
> chmod 644 /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg
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> Og only knows why this has to be so convoluted...
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> Eric Young
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> On Aug 21, 2008, at 10:25 AM, Miles Leacy wrote:
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> Why not just FUT & FEU with a desktop background package?
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> If you replace /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg and  
> make sure the permissions are owned by root:wheel, with -rw-r--r--,  
> is there still a problem?
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> Sorry if I'm missing something.
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> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Eric Young <eyoung at thayer.org>  
> wrote:
> Has anyone had any luck setting the DefaultDesktop.jpg (the one in the
> core services folder) to something custom?  the manual method is
> rather involved.....
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> thanks
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