Join a WiFi connection in log in screen

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know of a way to join a WiFi connection before a user logs in? We have a situation in which our users travel quite frequently, so when a password reset policy has to be pushed due to a forgotten password, they are unable to pick up the policy. We're hoping there is some way we can have them join a wireless network from the login screen from wherever they are working.

[sshort]

Check out this post: https://knoll.tech/2018/07/20/enabling-wifi-mac-osx-login-screen/

You don't have to use the Server app, something like ProfileCreator can accomplish the same thing. I believe the login window prefs need to set to show the username/password fields vs just the typical user icons with a password field for this to work.

[Anonymous]

From the look of that post, this looks like it would only apply for locally known networks. How would I go about getting a user connected from say a hotel or restaurant wireless network without the ability to log in?

[sdagley]

@jhair If you're using FileVault 2 and the user is logged out to the point that that they're seeing the FV2 login screen (account icon and a password prompt) then there is no network access at all to the machine. It doesn't matter if the Wi-Fi networks at that location are known or unknown, you're not going to be pushing anything to a Mac in that state.

[star-affinity]

Not even if connecting to Ethernet, or?

[sdagley]

@star-affinity Not on Ethernet either