[Casper] lpadmin script

Tue Jul 28 14:14:52 PDT 2009

Does anyone know if Casper 7 MCX settings will coexist with OD MCX settings? Or can this cause a potential problem?

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From: casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com [mailto:casper-bounces at list.jamfsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Larkin
Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 1:57 PM
To: Steve Wood
Cc: Tommy Nguyen; casper at list.jamfsoftware.com
Subject: Re: [Casper] lpadmin script

Steve, 

Would you please extrapolate on this?  As I am going to migrate to version 7 here really soon and would love to just push out MCX instead. 

Thanks 

Tom

>>> Steve Wood <swood at integer.com> 07/28/09 3:51 PM >>>
And, if you are using Casper 7 you can now push an MCX pref to not require admin privs to add printers.

Steve Wood
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On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Thomas Larkin 

<tlarki at kckps.org> 

wrote:

	Tommy 

	Ever think of adding printers in Casper Admin then adding them as a self service install and limiting the scope of clients to what printers you want them to install. 

	I looked at that hint and it only allows the "add printer app" to run, and it won't allow for users to add it via System Prefs. Every user is part of the _lpadmin group but I couldn't get it to work either really. 

	Also are you running that as a log in hook? Because casper will only use $3 as the current user when using it as a log in hook. If you run it as a log in policy it should run as root and not ask for the password.

	-Tom 

	>>> "Nguyen, Tommy" <Tommy.Nguyen at raytownschools.org> 07/28/09 3:21 PM >>>

	Hello, 

	Can someone help me figure this script out? I am trying to setup rights for my network mobile users and they don’t have rights to add printers. 

	But I found some help from apple that would let local and network users to add printers without being administrators. 

	http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3511 

	When you add them to the user group of lpadmin it would ask for password from the command line. 

	dseditgroup -o edit -p -d admin -t group _lpadmin 

	dseditgroup -o edit -n /Local/Default -u admin -p -a $3 -t user lpadmin (this line would ask for user of admin password, no idea where to add if I put it in the script?) 

	Thank you in advanced. 

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