Re: Monitor calibration & profiling in a multiuser OSX environment.
Re: Monitor calibration & profiling in a multiuser OSX environment.
- Subject: Re: Monitor calibration & profiling in a multiuser OSX environment.
- From: John Fieber <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 00:07:24 -0500
On Saturday, September 6, 2003, at 02:35 AM, Toby Harris wrote:
this is only half the story though - the profile is *available* to all
users but
a) it needs to be selected by each user
b) if users roam machines then the system falls down
so everything falls at the final hurdle, as it were. what is needed is
to tie the profile selection to the machine not user.
(b) isn't a problem because the profile selection is tied to the
machine. But it is also tied to the user as (a) implies.
so has anyone worked out how, upon login to a machine, to
automatically push the machine's profile setting to the user?
The profile/display association is recorded in:
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/.GlobalPreferences.<hostid>.plist
So what remains is updating that to some pre-defined state on login.
Alternately, it might suffice to remove the profile selection and the
system might fall back to an association in
/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist....I don't know, I
haven't tried it.
And the update on login, that is what the -loginhook option for
loginwindow is for. Just whip up a shell script to do what you want
once you have figured out what to do.
More generally, what would be REALLY nice for folks like me who manage
computer labs is the ability to set an "administrator override" flag on
an individual preference item in a plist file in /Library/Preferences
so that the setting in the machine domain (/Library) domain takes
precedence over the settings in the user domain (~/Library).
-john
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