Posted on 06-17-2024 10:11 AM
We track Macbooks by name in Jamf but students are easily able to rename their Macbooks by going to System Settings - General - About, and then just clicking and typing over the name that we set. When I look in restrictions, there's an option to restrict the entire General section but we don't want to do that. I just want to restrict the About section in General to prevent them from renaming the Mac.
Posted on 06-17-2024 11:00 AM
Removing admin access blocks most methods of changing the hostname. As for changing it in general, it's a configuration profile deploying the restrictions payload disallowing modifying the device name.
Posted on 06-17-2024 01:48 PM
You have to uncheck that box, right? Our restrictions policy has that box unchecked, so they should NOT be able to change the name.
Posted on 06-18-2024 05:46 AM
Correct. Also need to make sure the device is running macOS 14 or higher.
Posted on 06-18-2024 06:19 AM
Yep, sorry I was lazy with my screenshots. And as @DBrowning pointed out the devices need to be on macOS 14 or better (This will apply to macOS 15 when it comes out later this year).