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Locate and possibly remove a .mobileconfig file

  • October 15, 2015
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So, when our company moved into it's new digs, a .mobileconfig profile had to be installed first day. Not everyone got it, and it turns out that it's the source of some problems.

I have a new .mobileconfig file that's been distributed and is working much better, yea.

The 40 or so users that now have 2 .mobileconfig files I need to get the old one removed.

I can run as root over ARD that lets me know if the user has the old .mobileconfig file.
! /usr/bin/profiles -P |grep "OMC 802.1X"

Not sure how to get Casper to run that and give me a report of just the users that have that profile, but if that's possible, that would be great.

Then I need to remove the profile. That's tougher, the Profile was originally added as the User account, not the Admin or root account. So, I can't use root to remove it. Is it possible to use Casper to remove a .mobileconfig profile in /usr/bin/profiles that is attributed to a username[1] and not _computerlevel[1]

I can do this manually it's not hard, but if it's possible to have Casper,
Who has the old profile.
Can remove the old profile.

That would be really helpful...

Thanks.

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    • October 15, 2015

    Here is a script I used to find a WiFi profile based on it's name older than a certain date and remove it if found.
    You might be able to pick through the code and find something that would allow you to find and remove a differently named profile. Even just the profiles query might help you to isolate the name and give you the list need.

    #!/bin/bash

#Global Variable
STALE_DATE="2015-01-19"
STALE_DATE=$(echo $STALE_DATE | sed 's/[^0-9]*//g')
WIFI_NAME="INSERT YOUR PROFILE NAME HERE"
WIFI_PROFILES=$(Profiles -Lv | awk '/attribute: name:/ && /'$WIFI_NAME'/,/attribute: profileIdentifier:/' | awk '/attribute: profileIdentifier:/ {print $4}')
for WIFI_PROFILE in $WIFI_PROFILES
do
echo Profile: $WIFI_PROFILE
WIFI_DATE=$(Profiles -Lv | sort -r | awk '/attribute: profileIdentifier: '$WIFI_PROFILE'/,/attribute: installationDate:/' | awk '/attribute: installationDate:/ {print $4}')
echo Install: $WIFI_DATE
WIFI_DATE=$(echo $WIFI_DATE | sed 's/[^0-9]*//g')
if [ $WIFI_DATE -lt $STALE_DATE ]
then
echo The profile "$WIFI_PROFILE" is STALE
echo Attempting to remove stale profile
profiles -R -p "$WIFI_PROFILE"
else
echo The profile "$WIFI_PROFILE" is CURRENT
fi
done
exit 0
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