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I am needing to remove some obsolete login items from our classroom machines



I'm trying the following 



#!/bin/bash -v

exec 2>&1



sudo -u $3 /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to delete login item "PCClient"'

sudo -u $3 /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to delete login item "fthf02.op.ac.nz"'


It works fine running it manually on a client but once I run it as a login policy I get 



Script result: 

sudo -u $3 /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to delete login item "PCClient"'

43:53: syntax error: A class name can’t go after this identifier. (-2740)

sudo -u $3 /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to delete login item "fthf02.op.ac.nz"'

43:53: syntax error: A class name can’t go after this identifier. (-2740)


Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Have you tried adding in a sleep 30? Perhaps it is running too quickly at login.

#!/bin/bash



loggedInUser=$( ls -l /dev/console | awk '{print $3}' )

loggedInPID=$( ps -axj | awk "/^$loggedInUser/ && /Dock.app/ {print $2;exit}" )



/bin/launchctl bsexec "${loggedInPID}" sudo -u "${loggedInUser}" /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to delete login item "PCClient"'


Give this script a try. I got this a few months ago from a similar question someone else posed.

bpavlov: Be sure to test this technique under El Capitan. There might be some changes that affect this technique...

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