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Jamf published Build a Computer Information script for your Help Desk on the Jamf Blog this morning. In that post I used the term "module" to refer to a short script snippet that can read a piece of information from a Mac and display that information as part of a dialog shown to the end user.
For example, this gets the computer name:
# Display computer name
runCommand=$( /usr/sbin/scutil --get ComputerName )
computerName="Computer Name: $runCommand"
This Jamf Nation Discussion is for anyone who's needing assistance creating additional modules and/or helping others create modules.
@sdunbar, that was an excellent script source for days until password expiration. It was fairly easy to make this into something you can add to the full script. I took a little liberty to clean up the code but for the most part used that solution here.
Paste the following snippet somewhere in the body of the script. I suggest around line 140 after the # Test Active Directory binding section. You'll need to modify both the domainName and maximumAge values near the top.
# Display days to AD password expiration
# NetBIOS domain name
domainName="TALKINGMOOSE"
# Maximum password age in days
maximumAge=90
# Get current user
currentUser=$( stat -f "%Su" /dev/console )
# Last password set date
lastPasswordSet=$( dscl "/Active Directory/$domainName/All Domains" read "/Users/$currentUser" SMBPasswordLastSet | awk '{print $2}' )
# Calculations
lastPasswordCalc1=$(( $lastPasswordSet / 10000000 - 1644473600 ))
lastPasswordCalc2=$(( $lastPasswordCalc1 - 10000000000 ))
timeStampToday=$( date +%s )
timeSinceChange=$(( $timeStampToday - $lastPasswordCalc2 ))
daysSinceChange=$(( $timeSinceChange / 86400 ))
daysRemaining="Active Directory password expiration: $(( $maximumAge - $daysSinceChange )) days"The last variable daysRemaining is what we want to add to displayInfo. I suggest in this section of the script:
----------------------------------------------
ACTIVE DIRECTORY
$AD
$testAD
$daysRemaining
----------------------------------------------The end result looks like:
