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Re: Students logging in with local permissions I think

We saw something similar if not identical with our lab Intel Minis. The "cure" was to add a delay to the startup- we put a file named rc.local in /etc. set the owner/group to root/wheel. We got this fix from TC Networks, they found it somewhere in the Apple Forums if you want to know more about it.

The file contains the following lines:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 10

This is arguably a kludge to cover up a problem in the OS- apparently Apple didn't realize that the new machines were fast enough that they wouldn't wait until they got all/any of the settings from the server. We actually saw this on some of the last iBooks we bought, which again were faster than previous generations.

It's even possible that you'll need to up the sleep time (seconds). I would be terribly surprised if you needed as much as 20 seconds, but that's just based on our experience.

email@hidden on Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 2:01 PM -0600 wrote:
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 20:12:40 -0600
From: David Garrett <email@hidden>
Subject: Students logging in with local permissions I think
To: OSXClient List <email@hidden>
Message-ID: <email@hidden>
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I've discovered a weird issue with students logging into our new lab  
of Intel iMacs. Our students use network home directories. The bulk  
of permissions are set at the computer list level.

It appears that occasionally students log in and get permissions, and  
a dock that does not resemble what they should get. The dock and  
permissions most closely resemble that of the local admin user.  
However, to complicate things, it is not always the same set of items  
in the dock, but usually is essentially the same as the local admin's  
dock. Applications that the students should not be able to run are  
suddenly available. This includes app such as iTunes (the student  
never get any work done if they can play in Tunes). From what I can  
see the students are not doing anything to cause this. If I log them  
out with ARD, and they log back in it always seems that they log back  
into the normal environment.

Has anyone else run into something similar?

On a related note, is there a simple way to figure out which group a  
user logged in with? I'm thinking this might be a clue as to what is  
happening here.

Thanks

Dave

 
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