[Casper] Enabling Root

[Thomas Larkin]

dsenableroot will work on I think 10.4 or later but please be warned
anything you put in a script, like a password will be stored in the logs
in plain text.  Trust me this is not a good idea, and even if you think,
oh my users will never thumb through thousands of lines of a log file
and try everything that may look like a password, then you have never
met a high school kid with too much time on their hands..... 


I think you would be best wrapping this up in an application and then
deploying it, so the only thing the log file says is the PKG was
installed successfully.  


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>>> Clinton Blackmore <clinton.blackmore at westwind.ab.ca> 07/02/09 3:51
PM >>>

I believe the 'dsenableroot' command will do what you want. 



Clinton Blackmore 



On 2-Jul-09, at 12:11 PM, Nichols, Jared wrote: 




Hi-

We’re looking at getting Random Password Manager working on OS X
(already have it for our windows machines).  RPM will spin the root
account.  Does anyone know how to script the enablement of the root
account?  Ideally, we’d enable it through Casper and then spin it with
RPM.

Thanks

j
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Jared F. Nichols
Desktop Engineer, Infrastructure and Operations
Information Services Department
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
244 Wood Street
Lexington, Massachusetts 02420
781.981.5436


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