Im wondering if anyone has deployed Beyond Compare and also tried to lockdown any settings ?
Beyond Compare stores the settings in an XML file under the Users location in /Users/Username/Application Support/Beyond Compare/BCPreferences.xml
The file doesnt exist until the user starts the program so I tried to create the file if it didnt already exist for each user, after the install in a post install script -- this is what it should look like:
[ I dont know how to make the format in these post look like the script ! soemone please educate me on that ! ]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Produced by Beyond Compare 4 from Scooter Software -->
<BCPreferences Version="1" MinVersion="1">
<TBcPrefs>
<CheckForUpdatesDayAmt Value="0"/>
</TBcPrefs>
</BCPreferences>
I'm using a loop to try to edit or create the file
UserAccounts=`dscl . list /Users UniqueID | awk '$2 > 500 { print $1 }'`
for userName in "$UserAccounts"; do
file="/Users/$userName/Library/Application Support/Beyond Compare/BCPreferences.xml"
if [ ! -f "$file" ]; then
{
fileDIR=$(dirname "$file")
if [ ! -d "$fileDIR" ]; then
mkdir -p "$fileDIR"
fi
cat <<EOF >> "$file"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Produced by Beyond Compare 4 from Scooter Software -->
<BCPreferences Version="1" MinVersion="1">
<TBcPrefs>
<CheckForUpdatesDayAmt Value="0"/>
</TBcPrefs>
</BCPreferences>
EOF
}
else
{
if grep -c '<CheckForUpdatesDayAmt Value="0"/>' "$file"
## returns 0 if file exists with the value
then
dummy=true
else
sed -i '' 's|<CheckForUpdatesDayAmt Value=".*"/>|<CheckForUpdatesDayAmt Value="0"/>|g' "$file"
fi
}
fi
chown "$userName" "$file"
chmod 600 "$file"
done
My apologies-- i really dont know how to get the formatting correct in this post.
The file is not getting created, does anyone have a suggestion ?
Thank you
