Is Casper NetBoot Automator Action broken?

glutz
New Contributor III

We are in need of updating our NetBoot image to support newer hardware that is starting to become more and more prevalent in our environment. The issue I am running in to is when I create a new workflow and add the "Configure Casper for NetBoot" (At the end of the workflow) and fill in the information as needed. I then start the process when it gets to the Configure Casper for NetBoot it prompts me about 8 times stating "Automator wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this."

Now when I type in my password I am logged in as an administrator that is an admin on both the machine I am running System Image Utility on and also on the source machine/image and they both have the same password. After typing this in several times It stops prompting me and says that it has complete the tasks. I am not convinced that this is true and when you boot to this NetBoot image it has the desktop and looks nothing like when you would use the Casper NetInstall Image Creator app with 10.6. Even if I wanted to work with this and automated the loading of Casper Imaging it is prompting me asking if I want to run the application. Before I used the source machine to create the NetBoot Image I logged in as root and ran the application so it really is not the first time but it is acting like it is.

Any ideas?

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MikeF
Contributor II

You are using the password for the person that is logged onto the machine? I had the same issue but it was because I was entering the password for the account that was made on the image and not who was running the process.

glutz
New Contributor III

As I said in my question I am using an admin account that exist both on the image and the host machine that I am using to create the NetBoot image and the password is the same on both. I am logged in as that admin account.

To be extra clear. I am prompted at the beginning when I first start the process for my user name and password and at that point it then starts creating the .nbi folder and after completing that and going on to the automator task is when it prompts me again and I counted 10 times that it prompted me for user name and password.