Enabling Location Services in Mountain Lion image

Sweet testing this now!

Nice, just need a way of adding an item into the Allowed Apps List

I am testing this now but an already getting the following error: Could not write domain /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd.XXXXX.

Any luck with this?

@ bajankinch, is the script running from a Casper policy or otherwise being run with root privileges? The "locationd" directory and everything underneath it in /var/bd/ is locked so unless it runs as root it will never be able to write to that location.

I tried running the commands with sudo, I am going to test deploying the script through Casper Remote and at reboot at the time of imaging today.

Cheers for this, man - works great!

I'm missing something. I tried this as a login script, no luck. I tried it in Self Service, got this error from the policy -
Running script EnableLocationServices.sh...
Script exit code: 0
Script result: usage: sudo -h | -K | -k | -L | -V
usage: sudo -v [-AknS] [-g groupname|#gid] [-p prompt] [-u user name|#uid]
usage: sudo -l[l] [-AknS] [-g groupname|#gid] [-p prompt] [-U user name] [-u
user name|#uid] [-g groupname|#gid] [command]
usage: sudo [-AbEHknPS] [-C fd] [-g groupname|#gid] [-p prompt] [-u user
name|#uid] [-g groupname|#gid] [VAR=value] [-i|-s] [<command>]
usage: sudo -e [-AknS] [-C fd] [-g groupname|#gid] [-p prompt] [-u user
name|#uid] file ...

This is the script command -
#!/usr/bin/env bash

#enables Location Services
sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist
sudo uuid='/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep "Hardware UUID" | cut -c22-57'
sudo defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd.$uuid LocationServicesEnabled -int 1
sudo chown -R _locationd:_locationd /var/db/locationd
sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist

I've been having other problems with running "first run" scripts since moving to 10.8.4. Any ideas?

please copy the script from the very first post and use it.
You don't need "sudo" when you runs scripts with Casper as Casper run them as root.

Got this running for Mac OS 10.8, but no luck in 10.9.1. Anyone else having problems with the latest OS?

You have to have an additional line to get it work with 10.9
Use this;

#!/bin/sh

# enable location services
/bin/launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist
uuid=$(/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep "Hardware UUID" | cut -c22-57)
/usr/bin/defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd."$uuid" LocationServicesEnabled -int 1
/usr/bin/defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd.notbackedup."$uuid" LocationServicesEnabled -int 1
/usr/sbin/chown -R _locationd:_locationd /var/db/locationd
/bin/launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist

You have to have an additional line to get it work with 10.9 Use this; #!/bin/sh # enable location services /bin/launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist uuid=$(/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep "Hardware UUID" | cut -c22-57) /usr/bin/defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd."$uuid" LocationServicesEnabled -int 1 /usr/bin/defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd.notbackedup."$uuid" LocationServicesEnabled -int 1 /usr/sbin/chown -R _locationd:_locationd /var/db/locationd /bin/launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist

Can I use this for both 10.8 and 10.9?

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Yes. Works on both OS X 10.8 and 10.9

I couldn't get this to work on 10.9.4, anyone out there enabling this with a never booted image?

Anyone know how to do this in python?

[edited] working in 10.9.4 :)

I've used this to set the system time :)

#!/bin/bash

########################## SET SYSTEM TIME  ##################################################
#
# Written by Tim Kimpton
#
# using information from https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=5336
#
# If the machine is 5 minutes out of the kdc the machine will not bind to the domain.
#
# This script does the folling to ensure the time is correct
#
# 1. Unload the launch daemon used for location services
#
# 2. Get the hardware UUID of the machine and put it in the location services db
#
# 3. Enable location services
#
# 4. Correct permissions on the database file used for location services
#
# 5. Set the time zone to update the time automatically
#
# 6. Set the network time to on
#
# For information see https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=5336
###############################################################################################

######################### ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES #######################

# Get the Hardware UUID from system profiler
uuid=$(/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep "Hardware UUID" | cut -c22-57)

####################### DO NOT MODIFY BELOW THIS LINE #################

# Unload the launch daemon
/bin/launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist

# Write the UUID to the hidden plist file and initialise it
/usr/bin/defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd."$uuid" LocationServicesEnabled -int 1

# Enable Location Services
/usr/bin/defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd.notbackedup."$uuid" LocationServicesEnabled -int 1

# Make sure the permissions on the database file is correct
/usr/sbin/chown -R _locationd:_locationd /var/db/locationd
/bin/launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist

# Set time zone to update automatically
/usr/bin/defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.timezone.auto Active -bool true

# Set network time to on
/usr/sbin/systemsetup -setusingnetworktime on > /dev/null 2>&1

exit 0

For me it seems the script doesnt work on OS 10.12.1
Does anyone have tested it on Sierra with any luck?

Yup not working on 10.12 for me as well.

Try this:

#!/bin/bash

mac_uuid=$(defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.apsd.plist MachineUniqueIdentifier)
ld_plist=/var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd.${mac_uuid}.plist
plist_buddy="/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy"


location_status=$(${plist_buddy} -c 'print :LocationServicesEnabled ' "$ld_plist" 2>/dev/null)

case $location_status in

        0)
                $plist_buddy -c 'set :LocationServicesEnabled 1' "$ld_plist"
                ;;
        1)
                echo "Nothing to do"
                ;;
        *)
                $plist_buddy -c 'add :LocationServicesEnabled integer 1' "$ld_plist"
                ;;
esac

launchctl kickstart -k system/com.apple.locationd

exit 0

macOS 10.12 needed a little change with the script.
Working script:

#!/bin/sh

# Enable location services
/bin/launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist
/usr/bin/defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd LocationServicesEnabled -int 1
/usr/bin/defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd.notbackedup LocationServicesEnabled -int 1
/usr/sbin/chown -R _locationd:_locationd /var/db/locationd
/bin/launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist

Been a long time since I've been here but I just wanted to say thanks for sharing!

Didn't have this issue in org but a buddy just bought a new MacBook Pro and it had this oob. Script worked great!

:D