I started leveraging JAMF to patch Zoom.us which is working great so far. It installs in /Applications, but I am finding many users have it installed in their ~/Applications folder, leaving the older version in place.
I need to remove it from their ~/Applications, but running into challenges.
I am new at bash, but I tried running the script rm -rf ~/Applications/zoom.us.app , but it's not pulling it from logged in user's directory.
I tried, sudo -u $(ls -l /dev/console | awk '{print $3}') rm -rf ~/Applications/zoom.us.app , but these are standard users and getting permission denied messages.
Our mac's are not shared so doing it in currently logged in or all users' ~/Applications directories are fine.
#!/bin/sh#Removes user downloaded Zoomif [ -e /Users/*/Applications/zoom.us.app ]; then
rm -rf /Users/*/Applications/zoom.us.app
fi#Remove .zoomus for all usersif [ -e /Users/*/.zoomus ]; then
rm -rf /Users/*/.zoomus
fi
The final script that I used in my environment was:
#!/bin/sh# Disable auto-video on Zoom# For just your local account
currentUser=$(/bin/ls -l /dev/console | /usr/bin/awk '{print $3}')
currentUserHome=$( dscl . read /Users/"$currentUser" NFSHomeDirectory | awk '{print $2}')
prefPath="/Library/Preferences/us.zoom.config.plist"
zoomAppSupportPath="$currentUserHome/Application Support/zoom.us"#Clear Out existing App Support DBif [ -e"$zoomAppSupportPath" ]; then
rm -rf "$zoomAppSupportPath"fi# Apply to all users on the machine# Clear any existing preferencesif [ -e"$prefPath" ]; then
rm -rf "$prefPath"fi# Apply for all users
defaults write "$prefPath" ZDisableVideo 1
defaults write "$prefPath" MuteVoipWhenJoin 1
chown root:wheel "$prefPath"# Delete webserver
zoompid=`lsof -ti :19421`
echo"$zoompid"if [ -z "$zoompid" ] ; thenecho"zoompid not found"else
kill -9"$zoompid"fiif [ -e /Users/*/Applications/zoom.us.app ]; then
rm -rf /Users/*/Applications/zoom.us.app
fiif [ -e /Applications/zoom.us.app ]; then
rm -rf /Applications/zoom.us.app
fiif [ -e /Users/*/.zoomus ]; then
rm -rf /Users/*/.zoomus
fi
touch "$currentUserHome/.zoomus"exit0
You should also add Zoom to your Restricted Software list.
#!/bin/sh#Removes user downloaded Zoomif [ -e /Users/*/Applications/zoom.us.app ]; then
rm -rf /Users/*/Applications/zoom.us.app
fi#Remove .zoomus for all usersif [ -e /Users/*/.zoomus ]; then
rm -rf /Users/*/.zoomus
fi
The final script that I used in my environment was:
#!/bin/sh# Disable auto-video on Zoom# For just your local account
currentUser=$(/bin/ls -l /dev/console | /usr/bin/awk '{print $3}')
currentUserHome=$( dscl . read /Users/"$currentUser" NFSHomeDirectory | awk '{print $2}')
prefPath="/Library/Preferences/us.zoom.config.plist"
zoomAppSupportPath="$currentUserHome/Application Support/zoom.us"#Clear Out existing App Support DBif [ -e"$zoomAppSupportPath" ]; then
rm -rf "$zoomAppSupportPath"fi# Apply to all users on the machine# Clear any existing preferencesif [ -e"$prefPath" ]; then
rm -rf "$prefPath"fi# Apply for all users
defaults write "$prefPath" ZDisableVideo 1
defaults write "$prefPath" MuteVoipWhenJoin 1
chown root:wheel "$prefPath"# Delete webserver
zoompid=`lsof -ti :19421`
echo"$zoompid"if [ -z "$zoompid" ] ; thenecho"zoompid not found"else
kill -9"$zoompid"fiif [ -e /Users/*/Applications/zoom.us.app ]; then
rm -rf /Users/*/Applications/zoom.us.app
fiif [ -e /Applications/zoom.us.app ]; then
rm -rf /Applications/zoom.us.app
fiif [ -e /Users/*/.zoomus ]; then
rm -rf /Users/*/.zoomus
fi
touch "$currentUserHome/.zoomus"exit0
You should also add Zoom to your Restricted Software list.
Thanks, I finally figured out rm -rf /Users/*/Applications/zoom.us.app just a few mins ago. Will look over your stuff to build off of of. Thanks again.
When executing scripts from Jamf " ~ " will refer to the user running the script, which in the case of Jamf is "root".
If you find that there are multiple zoom.us installs in the 1 directory, they will likely be zoom.us, zoom.us1, zoom.us2 and so on. If that is the case, just use the following command in your script.
We've been using mdfind to find apps that may exist in non-default paths, then going through the search result to remove the ones that are not in the default path.
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