Re: [Fed-Talk] Re: Login Window Banner Text - Leopard
Re: [Fed-Talk] Re: Login Window Banner Text - Leopard
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Re: Login Window Banner Text - Leopard
- From: Allan Marcus <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:52:18 -0700
The plist "hack" was __comnpletely__ supported by apple, and is
recommended in there security configuration guidelines.
I have opened an issue with Apple enterprise support on the 256
character limit. I will report their conclusions.
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Thanks,
Allan Marcus
505-667-5666
On Nov 13, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Rex Sanders wrote:
Workaround 1: Hack the startup background image. New instructions
for
Leopard are here (changed since Tiger):
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1221912
(The new plist hack described near the end of this thread doesn't
work for me).
or the short version here:
http://leopardtips.blogspot.com/2007/11/change-leopard-startup-
image.html
Really short version: Use an image editor like Photoshop to place
your
login banner text into this image:
/System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg
I just tried the short version on Leopard, worked fine.
Advantage: Users don't need to scroll through the text, text stays on
screen a few extra seconds during login.
Disadvantage: You need to play with text placement to avoid the login
window at various screen resolutions.
I'm certain this method is just as unsupported by Apple as the old
plist hack.
YMMV.
-- Rex
At 1:46 PM -0700 11/9/07, Bell, Ian Frederick wrote:
Hello,
So we have been using the com.apple.loginwindow.plist
LoginwindowText for
our banner and it's worked great for 10.3 and 10.4.
So I went to test our Banner on 10.5, it came up short in the
loginwindow.
I appears that the text field now only displays 6 lines of text.
Well short
of our required text.
I was just wondering if others have noticed this as well?
Thanks,
- Charles Heizer
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On one of the other lists they have been talking about this issue
as it
impacts how we present our banner. The text is limited to 255
characters.
One of the thoughts put forth was to try the
SFAuthorizationPluginView the
link talks more indepth about it.
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Security/Reference/
SFAuthorizationPluginView_Class/
SFAuthorizationPluginView_Class.pdf>http://developer.apple.com/
documentation/Security/Reference/SFAuthorizationPluginView_Class/
SFAuthorizationPluginView_Class.pdf
I am just at the beginning stages of trying to find a good work
around myself.
Ian Bell
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