Run a script as the User

[#1]

I need to be able to have a script run as a user as part of a login policy. The script that I am using is an Applescript. How would I get Casper to call the script at login as the user?

Thanks

Paul Austin

Wachovia/Wells Fargo Desktop Services
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[#2]

What you would need to do it in bash is have a script that contains "su $3 -c "osascript -e 'applescript commands'". That is assuming $3 is the user of course.

Applescript might also have some functionality for doing this, but I'm a bash guy so I'm not too sure.

Ryan Harter
UW - Stevens Point
Workstation Developer
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[tlarkin]

the $3 only counts as the current user if casper runs it as a log in hook, otherwise it doesn't work. If you need to script something as root but not as a log in hook the easiest way to get the current logged in user, and I just learned this a few days ago myself (I was using a more complicated method previously) is just put a variable like this

user=/usr/bin/logname

Then call that variable in your script by using $user

So if you trigger it as like a self service policy you could use this method and remember you can invoke shell form apple script and apple script from shell.

-Tom

[milesleacy]

Hey all,

In my testing, logname returns the name of the user executing the command which, when run via policy, is your management account as defined in the JSS for the machine in question.

The following command will return the name of the user logged in at the console:

/usr/bin/who | /usr/bin/grep console | /usr/bin/cut -d " " -f 1

I hope this is helpful.

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[jarednichols]

I've also used:

user=ls -l /dev/console | cut -d " " -f 4

to return the current user. Then just call $user where you want to use it.

j
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[#6]

I don't think I've seen anyone else mention this one yet, but if the system in question is single user based (i.e. only one user logged in at a time), then you can also use:

/usr/bin/users

Patrick Salo
Macs @ Intel Program
Information Technology
Intel Corporation