Capturing First name, Surname and email address?

[MatG]

Hello,

Something that bugs me about our inventory is we are not collecting clear user information so when I run a report its really hard to identify users without a further look up on one of our internal systems.

Our Macs are AD bound and login is an assigned 4 letters and 3 numbers combination which have no reference to a users real name and this what I see in a JSS report.

What is a good way to capture a users first name/last name and email address? We don't use Apple mail but MS Outlook which the users setups if that helps.

[dan-snelson]

We use the following Update Inventory script in most policies instead of the built-in Maintenance payload Update Inventory option:

#!/bin/sh

echo "*** Updating inventory ***"

# Get the logged in users username
loggedInUser=$(stat -f %Su "/dev/console")

echo "Running inventory update for ${loggedInUser} ..."

if [ ${loggedInUser} == "root" ]  || [ ${loggedInUser} == 'YourLocalAdminAccountUsernameGoesHere' ] ; then

    /usr/local/jamf/bin/jamf recon

    echo "Finished running inventory update"

else

    # Run recon, submitting the users username which as of 8.61+ can then perform an LDAP lookup
    /usr/local/jamf/bin/jamf recon -endUsername ${loggedInUser}

    echo "Finished running inventory update for ${loggedInUser} ..."

fi


exit 0

[m_donovan]

If you have an LDAP server setup in the JSS you can pull the info using jamf recon -endUsername @@@@@. There is a 2015 JNUC video "Solving real-world problems from the command line" or something like that. It explains how to pull the currently logged in user and send that to the JSS with the recon command.

[dan-snelson]

You could test this in Terminal by issuing the following two commands:

loggedInUser=$(stat -f %Su "/dev/console")

… then …

/usr/local/jamf/bin/jamf recon -endUsername ${loggedInUser}

Then validate that the JSS shows the expected user information.

[MatG]

Great responses. Thanks :)

[danny_gutman]

I'm only able to lookup via email address, but my script to automatically assign users to machines gets loggedinusername, which is usually first initial last name; results in no lookup.

Anyone find a way around this?