Add a text message to the login window

Sep 21, '02 10:44:00AM

Contributed by: imacusr

I attended a seminar today at Apple on integrating Mac OS X into a Windows network environment, and although much of the information was not new to me, one little snippet caught my attention, as we have been wanting to do this at work for a while.

To add a banner text message to the login window, edit the file /Library -> Preferences -> com.apple.loginwindow.plist as a superuser, and add the following just after the first <dict> tag:

<key>LoginwindowText</key>
<string>Your text goes here...</string>
When you log out, the text inside the section will be displayed under the Mac OS X logo, in a box the width of the login window. This is good for adding a standard notice about workplace or campus rules for computer usage.

[Editor's note: This works as described ... very cool!]


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