Pushing a "Simple Finder" account to multiple machines.

[kayjustkay]

I notice that JSS/Parental Controls there is no option to push a user with "Simple Finder" style accounts, only some content filtering/time policy options exist. Could anyone tell me if they have managed this by other means?

To give some background, I want to create an Exam account on 500 macs with access to only MS Word and no internet. Worst case scenario, I can build a new image with this and re-deploy at start of next term but would prefer a more elegant solution.

Cheers

[nessts]

you just need to grab the user plist file from /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users/exam.plist for example if the user name is exam.

package that file and the home for that user.
write a script to set the password as your postinstall #!/bin/bash
PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

dscl . -passwd Users/exam SsdH1p@at

that should put the same account on all machines.

[sablenkhorne]

This is great and exactly what I've been looking for for a while, as I haven't been able to find many other posts on this. I'm having some problems running the bash command you entered. I'm getting an invalid path error on the passwd command. Should this work in Lion 10.7.4?

Thanks so much.