Help with an Extension Attribute script

[#1]

Any Teamviewer users out there?

I would like to grab the ClientID from the Teamview plist

Its the 2nd key in the dictionary.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict> <key>ClientIC</key> <integer>1869728100</integer> <key>ClientID</key> <integer>262023163</integer>

The path to the file is:
~/Library/Preferences/com.TeamViewer.Settings.plist

sed and awk are not my closest friends.

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[justinrummel]

PlistBuddy -c "Print :ClientID"
~/Library/Preferences/com.TeamViewer.Settings.plist

- Justin Rummel

[jcrowe]

Should be something like:

defaults read ~/Library/Preferences/com.TeamViewer.Settings ClientID

Justin

[#4]

Yeah that's the issue. Defaults Read won't get it from the current logged in user.
On Jun 16, 2011, at 5:43 PM, David Moyle wrote:
I think its back to greping the plist from the path ~/Library/Preferences...
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[tlarkin]

Casper scripts run as root so you either need to use some sort of
current user detection or loop through all users to store the info.

[sean]

A bunch of recent posts have explained how to grab the current user:

ls -l /dev/console | awk '{print $3}'

Beware, if you run the defaults command as root, then you will change the ownership and group of that file to root instead. If you wish to run a command as a user then you can use something like:

su [username] -c 'defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool yes'

will edit the com.apple.iTunes.plist file for [username], maintaining ownership to [username].

Sean

[rmanly]

!/bin/bash

for username in /Users/; do if [[ -a "${username}/Library/Preferences/com.TeamViewer.Settings.plist"
]]; then clientid=$(PlistBuddy -c "Print :ClientID"
~/Library/Preferences/com.TeamViewer.Settings.plist) echo "<result>${username##/} has the ClientID ${clientid}</result>" else echo "<result>${username##*/} has no ClientID</result>" fi
done

Came up with that quick and dirty...should work, have not tested with
another plist. If you dont want /Users/Shared muddying up the outcome
you can iterate over the UID > 500 per Larkin's now famous one-liner.
It can be found all over the place ;) That would change the path for
the test and also wouldn't need the bash string manipulation to get
just the name by itself though.

Good luck,

Ryan M. Manly
Glenbrook High Schools

[rmanly]

ack! This

clientid=$(PlistBuddy -c "Print :ClientID"
~/Library/Preferences/com.TeamViewer.Settings.plist)

needs to be

clientid=$(PlistBuddy -c "Print :ClientID"
"${username}/Library/Preferences/com.TeamViewer.Settings.plist")

Ryan M. Manly
Glenbrook High Schools