Need to delete a symlink and replace it with a folder -or- how to un-dig a self-dug hole.

Hi,

Ive attached a script which you can put into Casper Admin, you can then use it to run any script as the logged in user,

Parameter 4 = the folder the script is in Parameter 5 = the script to run

or you could copy the following line to the script you want to use

#!/bin/sh

current_user=/usr/bin/w | grep console | awk '{print $1}'

echo $current_user

su $current_user pathtoscript/yourscript.sh

echo Done

exit 0

Criss

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Excellent!! thank you for the leg up.

but... always a but... I am getting a error code I do not understand given the context of your script.

I put the script I want to run at /Library/Scripts/OITScripts, set as parameter 4, and the script name set as parameter 5. the script runs, but I get the following in the policy log:

Script Exit Code:0 Script Result: /private/tmp/RunCustomScript.sh: line 5: cd: HOME not set
Done

the script I refer to is as follows:

#!/bin/sh
rm -r ~/Movies
mkdir ~/Movies
chmod 700 ~/Movies

Try this?

#!/bin/bash

USER=who | grep "console" | cut -d" " -f1
rm ­r /Users/$USER/Movies
mkdir /Users/$USER/Movies
chown $USER:staff /Users/$USER/Movies
chmod 700 /Users/$USER/Movies

You should be able to run that from casper as a policy when a user is logged
in. So either a login hook or a self-service policy would probably be most
effective.

Bob

Along the lines of what I intended to do but as a network user there is nothing at /Users to act upon.

That's why I was working with ~/ instead of an absolute path. the benefits of network users is great but it makes the simple things inordinately frustrating at times.