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Authored by: ssevenup on Dec 20, '05 10:38:30AM

My general advise for this whole process is to evaluate what either Workgroup Manager or the Preference Panel Accounts GUI produce in the way of a user record and attempt to duplicate it. I have been writing scripts for adding users for the past couple of years and it gets very involved. My current production tools for adding users to Panther (and recently Tiger) are shell scripts wrapped with Platypus and Pashua. I plan to migrate my Tiger scripts to dscl and we have recently added pwpolicy elements. I am also using a hybrid account type with hand rolled mcxrecord properties to achieve some degree of control over the accounts without needing Server. Our users need certain capabilities, but pwpolicy is only honored for non-Admin level accounts (like I said.. complicated).

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Mark Moorcroft
ELORET Corp. - NASA/Ames RC
Sys. Admin.



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