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

[Criss Myers]

Hi chaps

Sorry if this doesn't sound right but this us what I do, if have a  
policy that runs at night time only every 30mins which shutsdown a mac  
if no one is logged in

For me it was simple, when a user logs in a login hook touchs
/Library/Login/loggedinuser. Then when they logout it removed the file

My policy then checks if that file exists , if so is exits, if not it  
shutsdown.


To me that seemed the simplist, as I can reuse that log file for abu  
script, much easier that checking directories and users folders

Criss

On 7 May 2009, at 21:32, DHowell at austinisd.org wrote:

>
> I found this one to work the best for me
>
> username=`/usr/bin/w | grep console | awk '{print $1}'`
>
>
> than using variable like this /Users/$username/
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> D. Trey Howell
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> Re: [Casper] Grep(?) or other method for a logged on user.
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>
> 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
>
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> 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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