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Script failing from Self Service

  • November 30, 2010
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I have a one line script;

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile";}' && killall Dock

…which puts a stack on the Dock that houses Recent Applications.

This runs fine when run locally on the machine as a standard user with/without Admin rights.

However, if this runs from a Self Service policy it fails to add the stack – the respawn of the Dock goes through fine, but the stack never appears.

Any thoughts?

Cheers

Rhys

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    bentoms
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    • November 30, 2010

    You'll need to grab the currently logged in user from console & then pass..

    User=/bin/ls -l /dev/console | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $3 }'

    /usr/bin/defaults write "$User"/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile";}' && killall Dock

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