[Casper] Grep(?) or other method for a logged on user.

[Thomas Larkin]

Are these accounts local or part of a directory? 

This could be easily done a few different ways.   First and foremost I
suggest anyone who manages Macs to keep their local admin accounts
hidden, in like /private/var for example.  That way it keeps them out of
the /Users directory.  Then all of your policies in place for your
managed users can loop through the /users directory.  Since the admin
accounts won't be there you won't loop them out at all. 

I kind of just came up with a quick way to do this, probably not that
efficient and someone who is a better script writer may want to try it. 

#!/bin/bash 

#get current user logged in 

current_user=finger -lp | grep Directory | cut -c 19-40 

#now loop through users 

for i in `ls /Users` 

do 

if [[ $i == $current_user ]] 

then jamf policy -trigger MyPolicy 

else echo "not in /Users" 

fi 

exit 
done 

This was written very quick and you may want to write it a better way. 
That is where I would start though.


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>>> Matt Oclassen <moclassen at salesforce.com> 05/07/09 1:32 PM >>>

Hello,

I was looking for a command that I could use to verify that a user is
logged onto their machine before a policy is run (as opposed to a
machine being on, but sitting at the login screen)

I want to make sure that they are logged in so they are sure to get the
messaging that this policy has run.

I am imagining something like the following:

If any user is logged in (except for our 2 admin accounts whose name I
can specify)

Execute  jamf policy –trigger “custom trigger”

Else quit.

Does anyone have an idea on the scripting for this?

Thanks very much,
Matt Oclassen

Desktop Systems Specialist

sales 

force.com





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