John, that's what I'm most proud of in this script.
You are correct. We found that deploying the "softwareupdate --
schedule off" command via Casper only applies the change to the root
user by default.
This script uses sudo to run the softwareupdate commands while
masquerading as all the other users on a machine. Which lets you push
out this (and other commands) system wide.
That technique also applies to Office and Adobe automatic updaters.
It took us a fair bit of testing to come up with this technique.
(Note: We ls command to get a list of all the directories in /Users,
so I can imagine some unique environments where this technique might
not apply.)
Read Jordan's post at our technical blog, Make Mac Work. He's done a
nice job writing up the full technique in detail:
http://www.makemacwork.com/disable-automatic-updates.htm
~Craig
PS> I like an earlier suggestion to incorporate those changes to the
new user template as well -- we'll have to incorporate that into a
future update.
