[Casper] Controlling Airport

[Robert Everson]

You can use the script in the resource kit to disable the airport, but  
to do this immediately when the ethernet cable is active, and then  
undo this when it is disabled, you'll have to use kicker (for 10.4) or  
crankd (for 10.5, not sure if it works in 10.6).

crankd is available here (http://code.google.com/p/pymacadmin/)

You'll have to setup a policy to run on a specific trigger, and then  
have crankd call this trigger when the cable is plugged in.  Then  
you'll have to cache a policy that runs when crankd is called when the  
cable is unplugged.

I haven't done this, but crankd does look useful for this type of  
dynamic scenario.

-Robert


On Oct 22, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Paul Austin wrote:

> I have an interesting challenge that one of you may have faced
> already. We have a new security policy that requires wireless to be
> disabled on a machine if it is connected wired to the corporate
> network. Have any of you had to deal with this issue yet and if so,
> how did you tackle it?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Paul Austin
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