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It's great so far. It's helped me determine who has PGP installed, and what VMs are out there.

Scouring the admin guide, it's not really clear how to specify a custom attribute. What data am I looking for to report back?

Good example would be to know if users have chat logging turned on or off. I know in Adium doing defaults read ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Users/Default/Logging | grep Logging | awk '{print $4}'; would return a 0 or 1. 1 being true that logging is turned on.

Can this be made as an extension attribute?

Thanks.

It seems I'm onto something. I used one of the custom attributes and copied the script and modified it to work for what I'm looking for. I am a novice at scripting. I usually have to hunt for the code I want.

Here is what I found from the screensaver attribute modified to determine logging for Adium (I make no guarantees in your environment):

#!/bin/sh
currentUser=last -1 | awk '{print $1}'

if [ -f "/usr/bin/mcxquery" ]; then result=/usr/bin/mcxquery -user "$currentUser" | grep -A 1 -w com.apple.screensaver | tail -1 | awk '{print $5}' if [ "$result" == "0" ]; then result="False" elif [ "$result" == "1" ]; then result="True" else result="Not set." fi fi

echo "<result>$result</result>"

I don't know if I need the mcxquery in that line. I left it in there and it's providing results for me as either True or False on my test machine. Can anyone else determine if this works for them?

Thanks

I pasted the wrong code into this:

#!/bin/sh
currentUser=last -1 | awk '{print $1}'

if [ -f "/usr/bin/mcxquery" ]; then result=defaults read /Users/"$currentUser"/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Users/Default/Logging | grep Logging | awk '{print $4}' if [ "$result" == "0;" ]; then result="False" elif [ "$result" == "1;" ]; then result="True" else result="Not set." fi
fi

echo "<result>$result</result>"

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