disable ad hoc networking

For Airport? From Terminal, sudo /usr/libexec/airportd en1 - ibss_admin 1

or for remote deployment:

expect -c 'spawn /usr/libexec/airportd en1 -ibss_admin 1; expect eof'

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Thanks! Could you explain what the "-ibss_admin" switch means? How would
this be undone if you needed to?
If your airport interface is not "en1", would you need to discover the
correct value and substitute it in the command? Isn't airport en2 on Mac
Pros and en0 on MacBook Airs?

Such as:
airport_interface=`system_profiler SPNetworkDataType| grep -A 1 "Hardware:
AirPort"` airport_interface=${airport_interface: -3}

expect -c 'spawn /usr/libexec/airportd $airport_interface -ibss_admin 1;
expect eof'

Thanks again for the great info!

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My guess...in the world of bits...

ibss_admin 0

;)

Craig E

Awesome!

OK, so what file does this actually write to? I am thinking a one liner casper policy should suffice for this

Thanks,

Craig, if I were a betting man, I'd bet you are most likely right

looking at the airportd daemon I want to know what other commands I can
use with it. The man page is seriously lacking. In fact it doesn't
display any information. I will search the Apple White pages and see if
I can come up with something else, but the documentation is really light
on this.

Thanks,

After testing out that command it seems all it does is just require
admin rights to create ad hoc networks. So if you don't have admin
rights you can't create them.

Nifty

after some messing around, I believe this is what will work on Mountain Lion:
/usr/libexec/airportd en1 prefs JoinMode=Preferred RememberRecentNetworks=NO RequireAdminIBSS=YES