[Casper] disable ad hoc networking

[Thomas Larkin]

After testing out that command it seems all it does is just require
admin rights to create ad hoc networks.  So if you don't have admin
rights you can't create them. 

Nifty

>>> "Miles Leacy" <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com> 01/13/09 2:55 PM >>>
Thanks!  Could you explain what the " 
-ibss_admin" switch means? How would this be undone if you needed to? 



If your airport interface is not "en1", would you need to discover the
correct value and substitute it in the command? Isn't airport en2 on Mac
Pros and en0 on MacBook Airs? 



Such as: 


airport_interface=`system_profiler SPNetworkDataType| grep -A 1
"Hardware: AirPort"` airport_interface=${airport_interface: -3}



expect -c 'spawn /usr/libexec/airportd $ 
airport_interface 
 -ibss_admin 1; expect eof' 





Thanks again for the great info! 


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2009/1/13 John DeTroye 
<detroye1 at apple.com> 




For Airport? From Terminal,   
sudo /usr/libexec/airportd en1 -ibss_admin 1  



or for remote deployment: 



expect -c 'spawn /usr/libexec/airportd en1 -ibss_admin 1; expect eof' 





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On Jan 13, 2009, at 1:12 PM, Thomas Larkin wrote: 




I am looking at just disabling the ability to create an ad hoc network. 
A simple look at the given command line tools says I can't do this.  So,
now I am venturing into the real of editing a plist to disable that
function. 



Any pointers or suggestions? 




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