[Casper] Searching for Accounts

Thu Jul 24 08:54:04 PDT 2008

Well, would you look at that. I'm glad to be proven wrong. Apparently the receipts section didn't jump out at me to be the place to look for user accounts. Thanks, Tedd.

Craig

On 7/24/08 10:17 AM, "Tedd Herman" <tedd at jamfsoftware.com> wrote:

Hi All,

As of The Casper Suite, version 5.13, there wasn't any smart group functionality that will do this, you could create a group of computers that either have or don't have a certain account. To do this, log into your JSS and click the Logs Tab. In the receipts section of that page, there is a link for "Local User Accounts." If you click this, it will display all of the local user accounts on managed machines with a button for "Computers with" (this account)  or "Computers Without"(this account). A policy could then be scoped to this group to add the user account if that is what the goal is.

In The Casper Suite, version 6, this available as a criteria for Smart groups in the Receipts Info section of the Smart Group interface. If you haven't received your notification of version 6 being available, have no fear! You will receive the download link by the end of the week.

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On 7/24/08 8:06 AM, "Steve Wood" <swood at integerdallas.com> wrote:

When I first read this I thought "sure you can do this", but looking at the options for Smart Groups, I don't think you can.  In fact, I don't even think you can with ARD either.  Finding the machines that have the user should be fairly easy, just use "dscl" along with "grep" to identify the machines that have the account.  The difficult part comes in identifying the machines somehow with a tag that the JSS can use.  If the JSS could use the ARD text fields to build smart groups on, then you could write a value to one of the text fields and grep for that in the Smart Group.

Sorry, hope that gives you some ideas, but I just don't see a way to grep the text fields.

        Steve Wood
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On Jul 23, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Ernst, Craig S. wrote:

Sure can...maybe.

 *   Management Tab
 *   Smart Computer Groups
 *   New Smart Computer Group
 *   Give the group a name and check the box if you want notification of additions or removals to the group
 *   Click the + for Computer Info
 *   Select Platform
 *   In the field for Platform enter the word Mac
 *   Click Save Group
 *

 Since you can only create smart groups with managed machines this should give them all to you. In fact you don't even need to put in any criteria and you should get the same results.

 If you are specifically saying that you have a maintenance account that is NOT the same as the account the JSS uses to manage the machines then I don't think there are any easy options built into the JSS to do that type of search in mass. Although local account information is stored in the inventory record for each managed machine.

 Hopefully that's helpful. Otherwise...feel free to submit a feature request. =)

 Craig Ernst
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 On 7/23/08 1:22 PM, "Paul Austin" <paul.austin at wachovia.com> wrote:

Oh Wise ones,

 I have a maintenance account on some machines and not others. I would like to be able to create a smart group based on machines with this account, or at least be able to do an inventory search for machines with the account. Can this be done?

 Paul Austin
 Wachovia Desktop Services
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