Casper Imaging application help

Hi Kumaresh,

Even if there were a checkbox for the JSS login in Casper Imaging, I'm not sure you'd want to do that, unless you want to use only one account for imaging computers. Casper Imaging is typically run in a NetBoot'ed environment, where Casper Admin runs in user's space.

Thanks,
Don

Hi Don,

Actually I we have a Bootdisk which is used for imaging, so this bootdisk is
used by helpdesk engineers for imaging the machine.
We use Casper Imaging for imaging machines, the bootdisk is set to Autologin
option enabled, casper imaging application is set to start at startup. The
helpdesk engineer doesn't have Admin access to the bootdisk, they only have
JSS access with minimum rights, only for imaging machines.
I tried adding the Casper imaging.app in keychain access, but no luck.
.

Thanks
Kumaresh

"The name/password for the account you'll use to image the machine" is this
the Admin account of the local machine or JSS account.
I tried with JSS account & it didn't work.
And also in Autorun data option provides helpdesk tech to add additional
packages to the image.
So I was looking for using Casper Imaging with all rights removed with
only Casper
Imaging Privileges "Use Casper Imaging" enabled.
So that helpdesk can only do the Imaging & restrict them from doing Custom
install.(Restrict them from adding licenced software from packages)

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Thanks
Kumaresh


Just have your NBI auto log in as root. Then all you need is authentication to alter auto run data, if no auto run data needs to be modified you can just netboot and image it.


Thanks Lance,

My other doubt is if i use Autorun in JSS Inventory for imaging, once again
need the Local Authentication that is "Admin password" of the machine. If i
provide JSS account name & password the Imaging application fails to perform
its task.
Please suggest....
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Thanks
Kumaresh


The Casper Imaging application really doesn't need to save passwords
On 10/6/10 5:57 PM, "Kumaresh.kulal" <kumaresh.kulal at gmail.com> wrote:
because of how it works with Autorun and PreStage Imaging.

For example, if you have an existing machine in your JSS and want to
re-image it every week to reset its configuration then search for the
machine in the JSS Inventory and click the Autorun link to the far right
of the search results. Select the configuration it should use and enter
the name/password for the account you'll use to image the machine.

The next time Casper Imaging is launched, it will first check with the JSS
for any Autorun data. If the Autorun data says to "Automatically Image
this Computer the next time Casper Imaging is launched" then imaging will
occur automatically. If Casper Imaging doesn't find any Autorun data then
it will prompt you for a local name/password and then your JSS
name/password to image the machine manually.

To take this further, if you add Restore partitions to your machines then
you can create a Standard user account to automatically log in and include
Casper Imaging as a login item. You could then delegate imaging to
non-admins. Just tell them to restart the Mac with the Option key held
down, select the Restore partition and the machine will re-image
automatically.

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William Smith
Technical Analyst
Merrill Communications LLC
(651) 632-1492

Thank you... Thomas,

It worked with Root login..

Thanks
Kumaresh


Just keep in mind that netboot broadcasts to the whole subnet it is on. So, for security reasons, if you run as root in your NBI you should control it to a limited access subnet only your IT workers can get physical access to.