No dice just yet, finishing a beer and headed home. Going to see if this can get resolved tomorrow.

@scottalanmiller said in Best SIP VoIP Softphone for macOS: Got a couple of users on macOS that would like to set up a softphone on their desktops. In theory Linphone, Zoiper, X-Lite make macOS versions. Anyone have a reason to pick one or the other or have another option on macOS? I use Telephone on my laptop and like it. Its pretty sparse, but it works well and is efficient.

This is a good starter video: Youtube Video

I've added this to a larger script that I use, but if you only wanted to automate the naming process the above would work for you. Else just remove the header #!/bin/sh and add the reset to any setup scripts that you have to automate this portion of the setup.

Another good resource that lists a bunch of useful tools for macOS management. https://github.com/smashism/awesome-macadmin-tools

@DustinB3403 said in Saltstack and Brew Casks: @black3dynamite That doesn't seem to work for me. Either as my non-admin user or root salt '*' cmd.run 'brew cask install obs -y' [WARNING ] Failed to open log file, do you have permission to write to /var/log/salt/master? Salt request timed out. The master is not responding. You may need to run your command with `--async` in order to bypass the congested event bus. With `--async`, the CLI tool will print the job id (jid) and exit immediately without listening for responses. You can then use `salt-run jobs.lookup_jid` to look up the results of the job in the job cache later. Root salt '*' cmd.run 'brew cask install obs -y' [WARNING ] /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/salt/payload.py:149: DeprecationWarning: encoding is deprecated, Use raw=False instead. ret = msgpack.loads(msg, use_list=True, ext_hook=ext_type_decoder, encoding=encoding) admins-MacBook-Air.local: Error: Running Homebrew as root is extremely dangerous and no longer supported. As Homebrew does not drop privileges on installation you would be giving all build scripts full access to your system. https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/cli/salt.html#options Use the --timeout option The timeout in seconds to wait for replies from the Salt minions. The timeout number specifies how long the command line client will wait to query the minions and check on running jobs. Default: 5 Or Use --async option Instead of waiting for the job to run on minions only print the job id of the started execution and complete. And then use salt-run jobs.lookup_jid to see the results. # Using --timeout sudo salt '*' cmd.run 'sudo -u non-adminuser brew cask install obs -y' --timeout 60 # Using --async sudo salt '*' cmd.run 'sudo -u non-adminuser brew cask install obs -y' --async

It is likely obvious, but as I know that some people are searching for this information, creating administrative users in this way can be done very easily from remote command lines such as ScreenConnect, ConnectWise, MeshCentral, and so forth.

Have never looked at that.

Fixed a small typo.

@RojoLoco said in OSX Mojave - System Storage - Time Machine Disabled: @DustinB3403 said in OSX Mojave - System Storage - Time Machine Disabled: That seems unnecessary as this shouldn't be so difficult, nor should it ever occur. ...because everything apple does is perfect and never, ever malfunctions in any way, right? Yeah. . . no I get the stance. What makes no sense is there is no way for me to find where this bulk is coming from.

@LilAng said in Copy / Paste from Excel on Mac to Outlook Web Access Creates Image Rather than Table: In Excel, use File > Save as web page, then attach the web page to your email message? Yeah, we found that process. That's a pretty huge "fail" process.

@DustinB3403 said in OSX Power Saving Settings: @black3dynamite said in OSX Power Saving Settings: Does that also prevent it from sleeping when the lid is closed? The lid closed is powernap

So with further testing, a restart is required if the user is using their system, otherwise they'll continue to get the notifications.

@dbeato said in lpadmin - remove printer with a space in the name: @DustinB3403 said in lpadmin - remove printer with a space in the name: Nevermind! lpadmin adds spaces as underscores! So with lpadmin -p I was able to find the list of printers. lpadmin -p Accounting_Printer And with lpadmin -x Accounting_Printer was able to remove the printer! Removed Accounting_Printer Good to know for central administration of Apple devices. What are you using right now? ARD and Unix cli

@wrx7m said in OSX 10.14.X Bug - Roaming AD Accounts unable to login when Off Network: @DustinB3403 said in OSX 10.14.X Bug - Roaming AD Accounts unable to login when Off Network: My co-worker thinks he may have a workaround, which involves backing up the user profile, deleting the existing one and restoring the files for the user. We're testing this currently to see if this actually "sticks". Did it work? Waiting to hear back

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Just used this again today, as another script I have had this attribute. Not sure when the attribute was written to the script though. But it's working now. This is the full error. /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted

@scottalanmiller said in OSX Unix Using Brew to install software remotely: @DustinB3403 said in OSX Unix Using Brew to install software remotely: So I can just unpack the dmg file, and have an Copy job, copy the application to the Applications folder for any user. As my admin user account. All via Apple Remote Desktop. This works without issue. What I am trying to do is avoid having to locally download the app at all, unpack it and then have a Copy job to run. I'd like to streamline the process. That's what the script is doing already. Making your own "sudo friendly" script for your install might make sense. The issue is there is no way AFAIK without adding my local admin account to this group. Which is more work than it may be worth since the existing solution works but is annoying.

@DustinB3403 said in Some New Macs Risk Bricking from Third Party Repairs: @dafyre said in Some New Macs Risk Bricking from Third Party Repairs: @Dashrender said in Some New Macs Risk Bricking from Third Party Repairs: @DustinB3403 said in Some New Macs Risk Bricking from Third Party Repairs: Yeah I kind of have an issue with this. . . It's my device, if I want Joe from the mall kiosk to replace whatever in my device, that is my right to do, and I'd be the responsible person who risk the device being broken further or compromised with non-oem parts. On the other side of the conversation I understand Apple's reasoning for this and it's sounds like they simply want users to use OEM only parts, but they use this guise of "for security". Which also kind of irks me. . . Why do you call it a guise? If Apple doesn't make the interconnect APIs available, who knows what those knockoff people are making. I'm back to the point where the device should likely just hit you with a warning every 24 hours that you might have compromised shit installed - but I'm guessing that Scott and others will be against that level of frequency. I'm against a one time notice of there being a perceived security issue in the device. I'm not against a notification -- but every 24 hours seems excessive. Maybe a 30 second notification every reboot -- something that doesn't require any action other than waiting the 30 seconds. But this is just an "you may have been" there is no proof that something has been compromised. Just the possibility because a non approved person or company has worked on property you own. I think any notification that would force you to wait, period would be overly intrusive. Right, you MAY have been compromised with Apple's own stuff, too. But they would "conveniently" not show a warning. Therefore the warning would have nothing to do with risk, and everything to do with FUD.

You might look at the tools that Apple is pushing (and thus supporting). I don't know if Munki will fit your requirements, but it may. Here is a list of several projects for managing macOS: https://simplemdm.com/2018/07/19/popular-open-source-tools-for-mac-admins/. NoMAD is pretty cool if you're in a Windows-centric environment.

@marcinozga said in Find the character break - sh script: @DustinB3403 you need to source .bash_profile after changing it, so bash picks up modified file. Either source ~/.bash_profile or . ~/.bash_profile Thanks for that, I was actually sorting out that bit as you posted. Short of setting up a few printers via the script I'm back in working order.

Now I'm getting Unexpected end of File FML. . . what changed!

I got it from here brew install macosvpn sudo macosvpn create --l2tp Atlantic --endpoint atlantic.example.com --username ' ' --password ' ' --shared-secret s3same You can provide ' ' for both the username and password, this allows any user to fill in as required.

@black3dynamite I was digging into it and it appears to be an issue with the host more than brew.

@bnrstnr said in Annoying Apple Issue - SMB - Finder issue: @dustinb3403 This doesn't even sound like a bug, more like intentional crippling. Is there some proprietary Apple file sharing protocol they want people using? Well, there is speculation of that. But it is not documented and Apple kept it even after their reasons for doing so (promoting their own SMB server that addressed it with a patch) were gone. It's known as a "bug" and Apple has admitted to it as a bug that they don't care to fix. So.... read in as you will.