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Automatic Deployment of FileVault 2

  • January 6, 2012
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Hello,

I was wondering if anybody has a method of enabling FileVault 2 on Lion without end-user intervention?
I have the master keychain made so I don't need to worry about recording numbers or sending questions to apple.
I tried the script from the resource kit, but that basically just opens the pref pane.

Ideally what I need is a way to enable FileVault on Lion at the imaging stage so that the person doing the imaging doesn't have to manually start the encryption process.

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    • nessts
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    • January 6, 2012

    I talked to Apple and there is not a command line oriented method of turning on FV2, it is a manual process at this point.

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    • rich.trouton
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    • January 6, 2012

    Yup, no command-line way to enable FileVault 2 at this time.

    If you need this functionality, I highly advise putting in a feature request at http://bugreport.apple.com/ and making sure your Apple SE knows what the bug report number is.

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    • dexterrivera
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    • May 10, 2013

    Hey AdamH,

    Not sure if you got this going yet but have you tried setting this up via policy in the jss? I recently got this working.

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    • RobertHammen
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    • May 11, 2013

    Old thread, Apple introduced fdesetup in Mountain Lion, and Casper Suite fully supports it:

    http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/using-fdesetup-with-mountain-lions-filevault-2/

    http://www.jamfsoftware.com/libraries/pdf/white_papers/Administering-FileVault-2-on-OS-X-Mountain-Lion-with-the-Casper-Suite.pdf

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