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Hi Everyone,

I have a policy that runs a script which grabs a users full name, splits it into 2 (first and last) and puts a . in between and then appends the domain name. The issue is that when the policy runs off of a trigger, it grabs "System" as the first name and "Administrator" as the last name. However, when I run the policy manually by running "sudo jamf policy" in terminal, it grabs the correct first and last name and the username is then inputted correctly. 

#!/bin/sh

# Get the logged in users First and Last name
firstName=$(dscl . -read "/Users/$(who am i | awk '{print $1}')" RealName | sed -n 's/^ //g;2p' | cut -d' ' -f1)
lastName=$(dscl . -read "/Users/$(who am i | awk '{print $1}')" RealName | sed -n 's/^ //g;2p' | cut -d' ' -f2)
domain="@domainname.com" 
userEmail=$firstName.$lastName$domain 
echo "$userEmail"
#example userEmail: first.last@domainname.com


# Run recon, submitting the users username which as of 8.61+ can then perform an LDAP lookup
sudo jamf recon -endUsername $userEmail


exit 0

Try getting the logged in users info the more Apple approved way:

https://macmule.com/2014/11/19/how-to-get-the-currently-logged-in-user-in-a-more-apple-approved-way/

You need to get the current logged in user and use that instead of the Who Am I bit you have, when the policy is run via the jamf binary via a recon or checking it runs as root and doesnt use sudo at all.

A modified script that should work would be as follows

#bin/sh

# Get the logged in users First and Last name
loggedInUser=`/bin/ls -l /dev/console | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $3 }'`
firstName=$(dscl . -read "/Users/$loggedInUser" RealName | sed -n 's/^ //g;2p' | cut -d' ' -f1)
lastName=$(dscl . -read "/Users/$loggedInUser" RealName | sed -n 's/^ //g;2p' | cut -d' ' -f2)
domain="@domainname.com" 
userEmail=$firstName.$lastName$domain 
echo "$userEmail"
#example userEmail: first.last@domainname.com


# Run recon, submitting the users username which as of 8.61+ can then perform an LDAP lookup
sudo jamf recon -endUsername $userEmail


exit 0

@drtaru THANK YOU SO MUCH

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