Enabling Location Services in Mountain Lion image

[bloree]

Enabling Location Services in our Mountain Lion image has been driving me crazy. After some googling and playing with fseventer, I was able to throw together the following script that works in our image workflow at reboot.

#!/bin/bash

launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist
uuid=`/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep "Hardware UUID" | cut -c22-57`
defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd.$uuid LocationServicesEnabled -int 1
chown -R _locationd:_locationd /var/db/locationd
launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist

[quedayone]

Sweet testing this now!

[Lotusshaney]

Nice, just need a way of adding an item into the Allowed Apps List

[antoinekinch]

I am testing this now but an already getting the following error: Could not write domain /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd.XXXXX.

Any luck with this?

[mm2270]

@ bajankinch, is the script running from a Casper policy or otherwise being run with root privileges? The "locationd" directory and everything underneath it in /var/bd/ is locked so unless it runs as root it will never be able to write to that location.

[antoinekinch]

I tried running the commands with sudo, I am going to test deploying the script through Casper Remote and at reboot at the time of imaging today.

[gokoudes]

Cheers for this, man - works great!

[ronb]

I'm missing something. I tried this as a login script, no luck. I tried it in Self Service, got this error from the policy -
Running script EnableLocationServices.sh...
Script exit code: 0
Script result: usage: sudo -h | -K | -k | -L | -V
usage: sudo -v [-AknS] [-g groupname|#gid] [-p prompt] [-u user name|#uid]
usage: sudo -l[l] [-AknS] [-g groupname|#gid] [-p prompt] [-U user name] [-u
user name|#uid] [-g groupname|#gid] [command]
usage: sudo [-AbEHknPS] [-C fd] [-g groupname|#gid] [-p prompt] [-u user
name|#uid] [-g groupname|#gid] [VAR=value] [-i|-s] [<command>]
usage: sudo -e [-AknS] [-C fd] [-g groupname|#gid] [-p prompt] [-u user
name|#uid] file ...

This is the script command -
#!/usr/bin/env bash

#enables Location Services
sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist
sudo uuid='/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep "Hardware UUID" | cut -c22-57'
sudo defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd.$uuid LocationServicesEnabled -int 1
sudo chown -R _locationd:_locationd /var/db/locationd
sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist

I've been having other problems with running "first run" scripts since moving to 10.8.4. Any ideas?

[Kumarasinghe]

please copy the script from the very first post and use it.
You don't need "sudo" when you runs scripts with Casper as Casper run them as root.

[ronb]

Got this running for Mac OS 10.8, but no luck in 10.9.1. Anyone else having problems with the latest OS?

[Kumarasinghe]

You have to have an additional line to get it work with 10.9
Use this;

#!/bin/sh

# enable location services
/bin/launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist
uuid=$(/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep "Hardware UUID" | cut -c22-57)
/usr/bin/defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd."$uuid" LocationServicesEnabled -int 1
/usr/bin/defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd.notbackedup."$uuid" LocationServicesEnabled -int 1
/usr/sbin/chown -R _locationd:_locationd /var/db/locationd
/bin/launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist

[armando]

You have to have an additional line to get it work with 10.9 Use this; #!/bin/sh # enable location services /bin/launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist uuid=$(/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep "Hardware UUID" | cut -c22-57) /usr/bin/defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd."$uuid" LocationServicesEnabled -int 1 /usr/bin/defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd.notbackedup."$uuid" LocationServicesEnabled -int 1 /usr/sbin/chown -R _locationd:_locationd /var/db/locationd /bin/launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist

Can I use this for both 10.8 and 10.9?

[Kumarasinghe]

@armando][/url
Yes. Works on both OS X 10.8 and 10.9

[geoffreykobrien]

I couldn't get this to work on 10.9.4, anyone out there enabling this with a never booted image?

[tkimpton]

Anyone know how to do this in python?

[tkimpton]

[edited] working in 10.9.4 :)

[tkimpton]

I've used this to set the system time :)

#!/bin/bash

########################## SET SYSTEM TIME  ##################################################
#
# Written by Tim Kimpton
#
# using information from https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=5336
#
# If the machine is 5 minutes out of the kdc the machine will not bind to the domain.
#
# This script does the folling to ensure the time is correct
#
# 1. Unload the launch daemon used for location services
#
# 2. Get the hardware UUID of the machine and put it in the location services db
#
# 3. Enable location services
#
# 4. Correct permissions on the database file used for location services
#
# 5. Set the time zone to update the time automatically
#
# 6. Set the network time to on
#
# For information see https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=5336
###############################################################################################

######################### ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES #######################

# Get the Hardware UUID from system profiler
uuid=$(/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep "Hardware UUID" | cut -c22-57)

####################### DO NOT MODIFY BELOW THIS LINE #################

# Unload the launch daemon
/bin/launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist

# Write the UUID to the hidden plist file and initialise it
/usr/bin/defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd."$uuid" LocationServicesEnabled -int 1

# Enable Location Services
/usr/bin/defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd.notbackedup."$uuid" LocationServicesEnabled -int 1

# Make sure the permissions on the database file is correct
/usr/sbin/chown -R _locationd:_locationd /var/db/locationd
/bin/launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist

# Set time zone to update automatically
/usr/bin/defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.timezone.auto Active -bool true

# Set network time to on
/usr/sbin/systemsetup -setusingnetworktime on > /dev/null 2>&1

exit 0

[bmgsupport]

For me it seems the script doesnt work on OS 10.12.1
Does anyone have tested it on Sierra with any luck?

[quedayone]

Yup not working on 10.12 for me as well.

[sean]

Try this:

#!/bin/bash

mac_uuid=$(defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.apsd.plist MachineUniqueIdentifier)
ld_plist=/var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd.${mac_uuid}.plist
plist_buddy="/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy"


location_status=$(${plist_buddy} -c 'print :LocationServicesEnabled ' "$ld_plist" 2>/dev/null)

case $location_status in

        0)
                $plist_buddy -c 'set :LocationServicesEnabled 1' "$ld_plist"
                ;;
        1)
                echo "Nothing to do"
                ;;
        *)
                $plist_buddy -c 'add :LocationServicesEnabled integer 1' "$ld_plist"
                ;;
esac

launchctl kickstart -k system/com.apple.locationd

exit 0

[Kumarasinghe]

macOS 10.12 needed a little change with the script.
Working script:

#!/bin/sh

# Enable location services
/bin/launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist
/usr/bin/defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd LocationServicesEnabled -int 1
/usr/bin/defaults write /var/db/locationd/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.locationd.notbackedup LocationServicesEnabled -int 1
/usr/sbin/chown -R _locationd:_locationd /var/db/locationd
/bin/launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locationd.plist

[rmanly]

Been a long time since I've been here but I just wanted to say thanks for sharing!

Didn't have this issue in org but a buddy just bought a new MacBook Pro and it had this oob. Script worked great!

:D