#Outset Dock Profiler
This script creates a package to use with Outset that will install a user-level profile for a specific user of your choice.
Provide a username and a profile, and a script will be placed in the login-every
(or login-once
if you specify) directory that will check if the current username is the one you provide, and then attempt to install a user-level profile.
NOTE: This script does not check to see if your profile is User or System. If you provide a System-level profile, it'll still apply to every user regardless once installed. Check your profile before using it.
Although any user-level profile will do, my primary usage for this is Dock profiles.
##Usage
$ ./dock_profiler.py -h
usage: dock_profiler.py [-h] -p PROFILE -n NAME [-i IDENTIFIER] [-o OUTPUT]
[--once] [-s IDENTITY] [-v VERSION]
Creates a package for Outset that will install a profile for a specific user
on login.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-p PROFILE, --profile PROFILE
path to profile to load. Required
-n NAME, --name NAME name of user to trigger on login. Required
-i IDENTIFIER, --identifier IDENTIFIER
identifier of package, defaults to
"com.organization.profile"
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
path to output package, defaults to "Outset-
Profile.pkg"
--once load profile once, not every login
-s IDENTITY, --sign IDENTITY
sign package with valid identity
-v VERSION, --version VERSION
version for package, defaults to 1.0
The required arguments are --profile
(path to a profile) and --name
(the name of the user to trigger the profile installation).
--identifier
can be specified to create an identifier for the package (and the package receipt).
--output
can be specified for an output path.
--once
can be specified to place the profile in login-once
instead of login-every
. This will cause the profile only to be installed the next time the user logs in, and then it won't try again in the future.
--sign IDENTITY
will sign the resulting package with a valid identity. Use /usr/bin/security find-identity -p basic
to list possible identities you can use to sign the package with.
--version
specifies a version number for the package. This defaults to "1.0".
./dock_profiler.py -p DockStudent.mobileconfig -n student -i org.sacredsf.profile.dock.student -o Outset-Dock-Student.pkg --sign "Developer ID Installer" --version 2.0
productbuild: Using timestamp authority for signature
productbuild: Signing product with identity "Developer ID Installer" from keychain /Users/nmcspadden/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
productbuild: Adding certificate "Developer ID Certification Authority"
productbuild: Adding certificate "Apple Root CA"
productbuild: Wrote product to Outset-Dock-Student.pkg
This will create a "Outset-Dock-Student.pkg" package with receipt "org.sacredsf.profile.student" and version 2.0 that will install a profile into /Library/Profiles/DockStudent.mobileconfig
, and a script into /usr/local/outset/login-every/profile-student.sh
. When the "student" user logs in, this profile will be installed.