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Disable Require Password from Screen Saver Help

  • November 12, 2014
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Good Morning,

I am building out my Yosemite Workflow, and one of the issues I see is the "Require password after Sleep or Screen Saver" is on by default. I have it in my first run script after imaging, to disable this using the following command.

defaults write com.apple.screensaver askForPassword -int 0

The problem I am having is this is re-enabled when a new user logs in. For labs, this isn't a problem as we have a config profile to manage this. For offices, if I set a config profile to manage this, the user can't enable it if they want to. I am sure I could piece this command out and have it set to run once per user, but I was hoping there was a way to make this permanent for new users. Thoughts?

Joe

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    • alexjdale
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    • November 12, 2014

    Why are you managing it if you are allowing office users to enable or disable it as they see fit? That is a very serious security requirement for us (to have it on).

    davidacland
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    • davidacland
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    • November 12, 2014

    You could loop through the user template with the following script:

    for USER_TEMPLATE in "/System/Library/User Template"/* do /usr/bin/defaults write "${USER_TEMPLATE}"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver askForPassword -int 0 done

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    • Hiller
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    • January 13, 2015

    Did you ever resolve this? I have the same issue.

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    • gregneagle
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    • January 14, 2015

    Seems a perfect task for a configuration profile with Set-Once. See https://github.com/timsutton/mcxToProfile

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