Solved Apple OSX - Public Desktop
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So in thinking of a few ways to try and help streamline our deployment here I'm thinking it would be useful to drop a few script files into a "Public Desktop" space like exists with Windows.
Does anyone know if OSX has something similar to this? I know I can drop these files into alternative locations under the root directory, but that is a secondary option I am considering at this point.
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I'm marking this solved as I create a direction from
/calledscriptsand that does what I need.No real need for a public shareable desktop when this works just fine.
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Actually I might just tie what I need to a LoginHook, as that's pretty straightforward and it appears that it'll address what I'm looking to do.
Will test and report back.
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I love how all of your Mac related posts are pretty much just you talking to yourself
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@bnrstnr said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
I love how all of your Mac related posts are pretty much just you talking to yourself
sometimes you just need advice from someone who will listen..
And for Dustin on MAC's/ Apple it's usually himself.LOL
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@WrCombs said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
@bnrstnr said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
I love how all of your Mac related posts are pretty much just you talking to yourself
sometimes you just need advice from someone who will listen..
And for Dustin on MAC's/ Apple it's usually himself.LOL
Shows you how popular Apple's computers are in a business environment.... nobody else even has them!
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@travisdh1 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
@WrCombs said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
@bnrstnr said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
I love how all of your Mac related posts are pretty much just you talking to yourself
sometimes you just need advice from someone who will listen..
And for Dustin on MAC's/ Apple it's usually himself.LOL
Shows you how popular Apple's computers are in a business environment.... nobody else even has them!
I dislike Apple With a burning passion...
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@WrCombs said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
@travisdh1 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
@WrCombs said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
@bnrstnr said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
I love how all of your Mac related posts are pretty much just you talking to yourself
sometimes you just need advice from someone who will listen..
And for Dustin on MAC's/ Apple it's usually himself.LOL
Shows you how popular Apple's computers are in a business environment.... nobody else even has them!
I dislike Apple With a burning passion...
I dislike them as well, but only because their products are generally way to expensive. The past couple of years, they've actually been making reasonably prices tablets.
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@bnrstnr said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
I love how all of your Mac related posts are pretty much just you talking to yourself
Not many people with Mac experience, and those that have it mostly use it very lightly. Mac + Power User is a rare combination, even though their convoluted, overly complex system is designed exclusively for power users who have time to tweak it and learn all the little quirks.
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@travisdh1 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
I dislike them as well, but only because their products are generally way to expensive.
I don't mind the price, it's the low quality that gets me. The hardware is okay quality wise, but not great, just good. But the software is always so bad - slow, poorly designed, unintuitive.
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@WrCombs said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
@travisdh1 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
@WrCombs said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
@bnrstnr said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
I love how all of your Mac related posts are pretty much just you talking to yourself
sometimes you just need advice from someone who will listen..
And for Dustin on MAC's/ Apple it's usually himself.LOL
Shows you how popular Apple's computers are in a business environment.... nobody else even has them!
I dislike Apple With a burning passion...
It's some of the end users that I deal with that makes me dislike Apple.
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So the loginhook didn't do what I wanted, at least not for the second user. . . maybe back to my original idea of just copying the script to a folder added to / and then running it when the user logins in. . .
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@travisdh1 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
Shows you how popular Apple's computers are in a business environment.... nobody else even has them!
I have not been in an org (anywhere from 40 - 1500 users) in the last 10 years that has had more Windows machines and Mac, ChromeOS, LInux. Mac has usually made up the majority in most orgs. ChromeOS was the lead in one, 60% total.
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@DustinB3403 Head on over to macadmins slack and perhaps check out #macos. Lots of people there supporting mac's and it's not just mac focused. https://macadmins.herokuapp.com/
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Are you just trying to have scripts run on login for each new user on each new machine?
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@SmithErick said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
Are you just trying to have scripts run on login for each new user on each new machine?
Yeah, to do things like clean up the dock, add specific items to the dock, set the finder preferences etc.
Manually running it once the user is logged in, isn't an issue, just a nuisance.
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@larsen161 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
@DustinB3403 Head on over to macadmins slack and perhaps check out #macos. Lots of people there supporting mac's and it's not just mac focused. https://macadmins.herokuapp.com/
I'll consider it, jumping into another community for this may not be something I really want to do. Most of this I can figure out on my own and without much hassle.
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@DustinB3403 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
@SmithErick said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
Are you just trying to have scripts run on login for each new user on each new machine?
Yeah, to do things like clean up the dock, add specific items to the dock, set the finder preferences etc.
Manually running it once the user is logged in, isn't an issue, just a nuisance.
For this use docutil
Also, look at outset which will let you run scripts at login, logout, etc.
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MacOS has a locale directory template somewhere for new users, need to find that that could make something work right?
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@larsen161 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
@DustinB3403 said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
@SmithErick said in Apple OSX - Public Desktop:
Are you just trying to have scripts run on login for each new user on each new machine?
Yeah, to do things like clean up the dock, add specific items to the dock, set the finder preferences etc.
Manually running it once the user is logged in, isn't an issue, just a nuisance.
For this use docutil
Also, look at outset which will let you run scripts at login, logout, etc.
Already am using dockutil, I'll check out outset. Thanks
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Also, are you using anything like DEP with jamf, munki, fleetsmith etc to help manage the endpoints?
