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Removing login items for users via a bash script

michael_rowland
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I am needing to remove some obsolete login items from our classroom machines

I'm trying the following 

#!/bin/bash -v
exec 2>&1

sudo -u $3 /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to delete login item "PCClient"'
sudo -u $3 /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to delete login item "fthf02.op.ac.nz"'

It works fine running it manually on a client but once I run it as a login policy I get 

Script result: 
sudo -u $3 /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to delete login item "PCClient"'
43:53: syntax error: A class name can’t go after this identifier. (-2740)
sudo -u $3 /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to delete login item "fthf02.op.ac.nz"'
43:53: syntax error: A class name can’t go after this identifier. (-2740)

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

    3 replies

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    • pblake
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    • July 16, 2015

    Have you tried adding in a sleep 30? Perhaps it is running too quickly at login.

    bpavlov
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    • bpavlov
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    • July 16, 2015
    #!/bin/bash

loggedInUser=$( ls -l /dev/console | awk '{print $3}' )
loggedInPID=$( ps -axj | awk "/^$loggedInUser/ && /Dock.app/ {print $2;exit}" )

/bin/launchctl bsexec "${loggedInPID}" sudo -u "${loggedInUser}" /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to delete login item "PCClient"'

    Give this script a try. I got this a few months ago from a similar question someone else posed.

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    • gregneagle
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    • July 16, 2015

    bpavlov: Be sure to test this technique under El Capitan. There might be some changes that affect this technique...

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