Push a plist file to all users - ownership question
Push a plist file to all users - ownership question
- Subject: Push a plist file to all users - ownership question
- From: Don Montalvo <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 00:31:19 -0500
We have a plist file we need to push out to the User Template and all existing users. We can push them easily to the User template since we know the plist files need to be owned by root:wheel. However, putting a copy of this file in each existing user's home directory is proving to be a challenge.
We can use ditto to copy the file to each user's home directory:
#!/bin/sh
#
# loop
for i in $(/bin/ls /Users)
do
/usr/bin/ditto /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj/Library/Preferences/com.mypreference.plist /Users/$i/Library/Preferences/com.mypreference.plist
done
exit 0
But how do we then set the ownership of the file to each respective user? I hope it's something we can add to the above script. Perhaps another loop function?
PS, This is a vendor provided plist file that isn't compatible with defaults command, so we have to push the file out to everyone.
Thanks,
Don _______________________________________________
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