Our config profile for blocking sharing works fine on macOS 12, but 13 you can edit the computer name in General / About just by clicking on name, Restricting the General prefs is not blocking About, but all other General settings.
What have I missed?
Best answer by Mark-Kenny
Sussed it.
com.apple.loginwindow : Set Mac computer name to computer record name FALSE
@Mark-Kenny have you considered enforcing your Mac naming convention via policy? For my org the daily recon policy includes a script payload that verifies the Mac name matches the org standard and changes it if it doesn't.
@Mark-Kenny have you considered enforcing your Mac naming convention via policy? For my org the daily recon policy includes a script payload that verifies the Mac name matches the org standard and changes it if it doesn't.
Two environments, one has the policy and is good, the other doesn't.
Does not working for me. I add both in one profile, I can still change the computername in the settings. Regarding the apple documentation it is deprecated
We are now on the latest os version and since two weeks we do not need this additional profile anymore.
We had also issues with the restricted apple id pane causing by this workaround.
So we just removed the workaround for the computername (Its configured like before in the configuration profile and it works like before).
We created the restriction Configuration profile new for everything we had before.
We removed the previous cp
we scoped the new cp
Everything works like it should
From my side i saw in tests, that after working with this profiles and workarounds its to restart your macbook after the test. At least to completely quit system preferences.
But, i just checked once again now, and it seems that without the workaround it doesn't work anymore... haha...
So changing computername on the machine is possible, but only with adminrights. This was not possible before. It was greyed out
I am not admin, but I can change. usually my clients are not admin, so that would be fine for me, but anyway even as standard i can change the computer name
I know this is an older post but has anyone found a solution for this? I tested again on 13.6 and the ability for a non-admin can change the device name in General > About > Name. This of course has been a cause for concern as most of our settings are being applied to smartgroups based on device name. I use JAMF school and not JAMF pro so my ability to control this with a profile is a bit more limited and I cannot find a profile in iMazing that would restrict the devices being renamed.
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