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I know there's a number of discussion on it but haven't quite found the correct one. I'm trying to have a policy that will call a script to change computer name based upon users first letter and last name. Here's the workflow:

-User will enroll via DEP. Enter in John Smith
-DEP will look for SplashBuddy (SB) to run.
-SB will do it's thing and will trigger all install packages.
-one of the policies to kick off is to take the information set for the User name and change computer name to jsmith-mbp on the local macbook.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

This should work. I used the Jamf "setComputerName" command to set the computer name. Below it are the scutil commands to set the computer name. I commented out those lines. They are only needed if you're not using the Jamf command to name the computer. If you use scutil, you would want to comment out the line that uses the Jamf command.

#!/bin/zsh jamfBinary="/usr/local/jamf/bin/jamf" # Get last 7 of serial number serial=$(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep Serial | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $4 }' | tail -c 8 ) # Current logged in user currentUser=$(/bin/ls -l /dev/console | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $3 }') # First Name firstName=$(dscl . -read /Users/$currentUser RealName | cut -d: -f2 | sed -e 's/^[ \\t]*//' | grep -v "^$" | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $1 }') # Last Name lastName=$(dscl . -read /Users/$currentUser RealName | cut -d: -f2 | sed -e 's/^[ \\t]*//' | grep -v "^$" | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $2 }') # Get first initial firstInitial=$(finger -s $currentUser | head -2 | tail -n 1 | awk '{print toupper ($2)}' | cut -c 1) # Get last initial lastInitial=$(finger -s $currentUser | head -2 | tail -n 1 | awk '{print toupper ($3)}' | cut -c 1) # Generate computer name computerName="${firstInitial}""${lastName}"-"${serial}" # Run Jamf command to name the computer "$jamfBinary" setComputerName "$computerName" # Use scutil to set computer name - comment out if using 'jamf setComputerName' #scutil --set ComputerName "$computerName" #scutil --set LocalHostName "$computerName" #scutil --set HostName "$computerName"

 

Thanks, will give this a try. How does your script know to skip middle names (e.g., full name is "Mary Elizabeth Winstead" and I want the computer name to be "mwinstead-XXXXXXX"; wouldn't "print $2" on the dscl command return elizabeth, not winstead)?

 

Thanks, will give this a try. How does your script know to skip middle names (e.g., full name is "Mary Elizabeth Winstead" and I want the computer name to be "mwinstead-XXXXXXX"; wouldn't "print $2" on the dscl command return elizabeth, not winstead)?


It doesn't know to do that. It's querying the first and last name that is in the user's local directory record. My script is looking at the "RealName" attribute. Here's a screenshot from my personal MacBook Pro. You could experiment with using awk or some other method of parsing output to remove a middle name from the output.

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