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      DustinB3403
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      This is the entire portion of the script I'm just testing with (so for the moment it is it's own script).

      #!/bin/sh
      
      read -s -p "Enter a wheel username: " USER
      read -s -p "Enter a password for wheel: " PASS
      
      # Setting (office) offname variable
      read -p 'What office are you in?: ' offname
      
      # Setting (computer username variable) compuser variable
      read -p 'Enter this computers username (SAMAccountName) IE jdoe: ' compuser
      
      # Setting the asset tag (tagnumber) variable
      read -p 'Enter this computers asset tag: ' tagnumber
      
      echo $PASS | sudo -S -U $USER $PASS scutil --set HostName $offname$compuser && sudo -S -U $USER scutil --set ComputerName $compuser$tagnumber && sudo -S -U $USER scutil --set LocalHostName $offname$compuser$tagnumber
      

      The script is run from a local wheel user so to run it, first I go su wheel-user (because our users by default aren't wheel users and thus need to jump to one) and then call that script.

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        DustinB3403 @dafyre
        last edited by DustinB3403

        @dafyre said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

        @DustinB3403 said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

        When running

        #!/bin/sh
        
        read -s -p "Enter a wheel username: " USER
        read -s -p "Enter a password for wheel: " PASS
        
        # Setting (office) offname variable
        read -p 'What office are you in?: ' offname
        
        # Setting (computer username variable) compuser variable
        read -p 'Enter this computers username (SAMAccountName) IE jdoe: ' compuser
        
        # Setting the asset tag (tagnumber) variable
        read -p 'Enter this computers asset tag: ' tagnumber
        
        echo $PASS | sudo -S -U $USER -l scutil --set HostName $offname$compuser && scutil --set ComputerName $compuser$tagnumber && scutil --set LocalHostName $offname$compuser$tagnumber
        

        I'm met with

        Enter a wheel user Enter a password for wheel what office are you in
        enter this computers user. . .
        enter this computers tag

        And that I have to use -l with -U (that is lower case L).

        Are you doing:

        sudo myscript.sh ? Or are you just running the script and letting it call sudo?

        Also... What do you have to use -U $USER?

        running su <wheel-user> then ./rename.sh

        @dafyre said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

        Also... What do you have to use -U $USER?

        what?

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          dafyre @DustinB3403
          last edited by

          @DustinB3403 said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

          @dafyre said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

          @DustinB3403 said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

          When running

          #!/bin/sh
          
          read -s -p "Enter a wheel username: " USER
          read -s -p "Enter a password for wheel: " PASS
          
          # Setting (office) offname variable
          read -p 'What office are you in?: ' offname
          
          # Setting (computer username variable) compuser variable
          read -p 'Enter this computers username (SAMAccountName) IE jdoe: ' compuser
          
          # Setting the asset tag (tagnumber) variable
          read -p 'Enter this computers asset tag: ' tagnumber
          
          echo $PASS | sudo -S -U $USER -l scutil --set HostName $offname$compuser && scutil --set ComputerName $compuser$tagnumber && scutil --set LocalHostName $offname$compuser$tagnumber
          

          I'm met with

          Enter a wheel user Enter a password for wheel what office are you in
          enter this computers user. . .
          enter this computers tag

          And that I have to use -l with -U (that is lower case L).

          Are you doing:

          sudo myscript.sh ? Or are you just running the script and letting it call sudo?

          Also... What do you have to use -U $USER?

          running su <wheel-user> then ./rename.sh

          @dafyre said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

          Also... What do you have to use -U $USER?

          what?

          Sorry, Missed that... I meant to say WHY do you have to use -U $USER ?

          sudo rename.sh doesn't work?

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            DustinB3403 @dafyre
            last edited by

            @dafyre said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

            Sorry, Missed that... I meant to say WHY do you have to use -U $USER ?

            Because you need to elevate to root.

            @dafyre said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

            sudo rename.sh doesn't work?

            It does, but you are prompted to enter a username and password 3 times to make the edits. It's easy to fill-in but annoying to have to do repeatedly.

            Hence my attempt at scripting the responses to the prompt windows (example below) Imagine having to type creds 3 times, for 100+ machines.

            R4YZS0B19iFjV9eMoQ5WRzipOS6IVXMy.png

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              DustinB3403 @dafyre
              last edited by

              @dafyre said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

              @DustinB3403 said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

              @dafyre said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

              @DustinB3403 said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

              When running

              #!/bin/sh
              
              read -s -p "Enter a wheel username: " USER
              read -s -p "Enter a password for wheel: " PASS
              
              # Setting (office) offname variable
              read -p 'What office are you in?: ' offname
              
              # Setting (computer username variable) compuser variable
              read -p 'Enter this computers username (SAMAccountName) IE jdoe: ' compuser
              
              # Setting the asset tag (tagnumber) variable
              read -p 'Enter this computers asset tag: ' tagnumber
              
              echo $PASS | sudo -S -U $USER -l scutil --set HostName $offname$compuser && scutil --set ComputerName $compuser$tagnumber && scutil --set LocalHostName $offname$compuser$tagnumber
              

              I'm met with

              Enter a wheel user Enter a password for wheel what office are you in
              enter this computers user. . .
              enter this computers tag

              And that I have to use -l with -U (that is lower case L).

              Are you doing:

              sudo myscript.sh ? Or are you just running the script and letting it call sudo?

              Also... What do you have to use -U $USER?

              running su <wheel-user> then ./rename.sh

              @dafyre said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

              Also... What do you have to use -U $USER?

              what?

              Sorry, Missed that... I meant to say WHY do you have to use -U $USER ?

              Also you said to do this, not I.

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                DustinB3403
                last edited by

                Woot got it!

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                  dafyre
                  last edited by

                  Try this script...

                  #!/bin/sh
                  
                  # Setting (office) offname variable
                  read -p 'What office are you in?: ' offname
                  
                  # Setting (computer username variable) compuser variable
                  read -p 'Enter this computers username (SAMAccountName) IE jdoe: ' compuser
                  
                  # Setting the asset tag (tagnumber) variable
                  read -p 'Enter this computers asset tag: ' tagnumber
                  
                  sudo scutil --set HostName $offname$compuser
                  sudo scutil --set ComputerName $compuser$tagnumber
                  sudo scutil --set LocalHostName $offname$compuser$tagnumber
                  

                  Then just run the script with ... sudo ./myscript.sh

                  You have to enter your password once at the beginning.

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                    dafyre @DustinB3403
                    last edited by

                    @DustinB3403 said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

                    Woot got it!

                    Sweet! What did you wind up doing?

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                      DustinB3403
                      last edited by

                      #!/bin/sh
                      
                      read -s -p "Enter a wheel username: " USER
                      read -s -p "Enter a password for wheel: " PASS
                      
                      # Setting (office) offname variable
                      read -p 'What office are you in?: ' offname
                      
                      # Setting (computer username variable) compuser variable
                      read -p 'Enter this computers username (SAMAccountName) IE jdoe: ' compuser
                      
                      # Setting the asset tag (tagnumber) variable
                      read -p 'Enter this computers asset tag: ' tagnumber
                      
                      echo $PASS | sudo -S scutil --set HostName $offname$compuser && sudo -S scutil --set ComputerName $compuser$tagnumber && sudo -S scutil --set LocalHostName $offname$compuser$tagnumber
                      
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                        DustinB3403
                        last edited by

                        @dafyre thanks for helping out there, it was almost there the sudo -S bit was all it needed, but for some odd flipping reason it recommends using -U flag as well which is weird.

                        But at least it works, now to fold this into the larger script and see how it all works.

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                          dafyre @DustinB3403
                          last edited by

                          @DustinB3403 said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

                          @dafyre thanks for helping out there, it was almost there the sudo -S bit was all it needed, but for some odd flipping reason it recommends using -U flag as well which is weird.

                          But at least it works, now to fold this into the larger script and see how it all works.

                          I'll be over here in the corner with my hard hat on, watching for nuclear fallout, lol.

                          Glad you got it going!

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                            DustinB3403 @dafyre
                            last edited by

                            @dafyre said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

                            atching for nuclear fallout, lol.

                            I've already made a backup of the master script 🙂 before edits.

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                              DustinB3403
                              last edited by

                              I think my header really sells it.

                              powershell_wJLd1e1YLE.png

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                                DustinB3403
                                last edited by

                                I'm of course just kidding, lord knows I'd actually get dragged to court with a disclaimer like this. . .

                                Time to find the GNU license and insert that. . .

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                                  IRJ
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                                  I'm glad you found a solution, but have you considered ansible for tasks like this?

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                                    DustinB3403 @IRJ
                                    last edited by

                                    @IRJ said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

                                    I'm glad you found a solution, but have you considered ansible for tasks like this?

                                    Have you consider our lord and savor jesus christ?

                                    FFS man...

                                    Of course I have I just don't understand it as all of their documentation is god awful and I'd have to take numerous pounds of coke up the backdoor to understand what the hell I'm supposed to do.

                                    On a positive note, if you want to jump on a skype call some time or another I'd be happy to learn if you're willing to teach.

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                                      stacksofplates @DustinB3403
                                      last edited by

                                      @DustinB3403 said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

                                      @IRJ said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

                                      I'm glad you found a solution, but have you considered ansible for tasks like this?

                                      Have you consider our lord and savor jesus christ?

                                      FFS man...

                                      Of course I have I just don't understand it as all of their documentation is god awful and I'd have to take numerous pounds of coke up the backdoor to understand what the hell I'm supposed to do.

                                      I don't know what you're on. It's some of the better documentation. I'd be interested to see what specific parts you are referencing.

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                                        DustinB3403 @stacksofplates
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                                        @stacksofplates said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

                                        @DustinB3403 said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

                                        @IRJ said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

                                        I'm glad you found a solution, but have you considered ansible for tasks like this?

                                        Have you consider our lord and savor jesus christ?

                                        FFS man...

                                        Of course I have I just don't understand it as all of their documentation is god awful and I'd have to take numerous pounds of coke up the backdoor to understand what the hell I'm supposed to do.

                                        I don't know what you're on. It's some of the better documentation. I'd be interested to see what specific parts you are referencing.

                                        Specifically using it to administrator Apple OSX laptops and workstations is what I'm particularly interested in. We have very few linux systems here that would require automation on any scale.

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                                          DustinB3403
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                                          Like 85-90% of this office is OSX, so anything to help reduce that overhead would be great. I've even posted here about looking at all of these automation tools and which was best and it turned into a this one is cool, but it doesn't do that one thing you absolutely need.

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                                            DustinB3403
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                                            PS I learn from seeing and doing, rather than reading. Just as an FYI.

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