Using $1, $2, $3 etc...

The Casper Suite Documentation doesn't explicitly state this, but it implies
the values of these variables on page 170.
$1 = Mount point of the target drive. This is / if you're booted to the
target or /Volumes/targetDrive if you're not booted to it.

$2 = the computer name

$3 = the current user's shortname. Note that this is not a loop, and $3
doesn't mean "do this to all users". If you use $3 in a script that is used
in a login or logout policy, or a Casper Remote action that is run while a
client is logged in, that $3 will equal the current user's username. If no
one is logged in, I believe $3 will be empty.

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Page 170 of the Casper Suite 6.0 Documentation.pdf talks about scripts briefly, and refers you to the example scripts. The example scripts that come with Casper (they would've been in the original installation DMG) show that $3 is the current user (although it is only populated if the script is called at login or logoff.)

The 'w' and 'who' commands will give the users who are currently logged in. I think

who | grep console | cut -d " " -f 1

will probably be the best way to get a list of all users logged in graphically.

As for getting a list of all users who have accounts on the machine, if they are all in the Users folder, you could do something like this:

for USER in `ls /Users` ; do echo $USER ; done

If your users aren't all in the Users folder, you probably have to move on to using dscl, and it'll take a bit more effort.

Lastly, Casper has facilities to "Fill User Templates" (FUT) and "Fill Existing Users" (FEU), which helps if you need to create or modify a file for all users. Or, to really make use of the $3 parameter, you should create a script that runs at login, scheduled to run once for each user.

I hope this answers your question.

Cheers,
Clinton

That's the ticket, I was trying to write too much into the script, I'll
strip it down and just run once per user on each machine in the policy.
We've got an issue with a library file that has the incorrect
permissions that needs to be fixed on each user on the machine,
including our bound accounts which really is where I hit the wall.

Thanks for the responses Miles and Clinton!

-Dusty-