Creating a default package.json file § To create a default package.json using information extracted from the current directory, use the npm init command with the -yes or -y flag. For a list of default values, see “ Default values extracted from the current directory ”. On the command line, navigate to the root directory of your package. In the System Image Utility app on your Mac, click the Source pop-up menu, choose “Package-only (no OS) installation,” then click Next. Read the macOS License Agreement. If you agree, click Agree to continue. Click the Add button to add configuration profiles, packages,.
Create packages to deploy Mac OS X user accounts Download v1.2.4 Source as a.zip View on GitHub. This utility creates packages that create local user accounts when installed. The packages can create users on 10.5-10.9, and they are compatible with all workflows that can install standard installer pkgs. For the details on how the.
This utility creates packages that create local user accounts when installed. The packages can create users on 10.5-10.9, and they are compatible with all workflows that can install standard installer pkgs. For the details on how the packages work, see Greg Neagle's article in the May 2012 issue of MacTech.
Packages created using this utility encrypts the password as a salted SHA1 hash, which is how 10.5 and 10.6 normally stores it. Using a dictionary based attack they are reasonably easy to crack on modern machines, so make sure you pick a good, strong password. In 10.7 and up this is converted to PBKDF2 upon first login, which is much harder to crack, but the SHA1 hash can still be extracted from the package.
If you enable automatic login the password is stored in a kcpassword file, which is merely obfuscated and not encrypted - extracting the password (no matter how strong) is trivial.
Credits
- Code by Per Olofsson, per.olofsson@gu.se
- User deployment method by Greg Neagle
- Bash plist modification code by Michael Lynn
Version History
- 1.2.4
- Fixed permissions for users to change their name, password, picture, etc (thanks to Greg Collen).
- 1.2.3
- Allow packages with empty password (thanks to Dan Keller).
- 1.2.2
- Fixed automatic logins that only worked on 2nd boot (thanks to Joseph Chilcote).
- 1.2.1
- Fixed empty password hash when you clicked Save without leaving the Password/Verify field (thanks to ih84ds).
- 1.2
- Added automatic login using kcpassword.
- Package now adds users to admin group instead of using primary group 80 (thanks to Michael Lynn, Jason Bush, Greg Neagle). Primary group is always 20.
- 1.1
- create_user.pkg files can now be opened for editing.
- Added user picture.
- App is now sandboxed.
- 1.0.3
- Fixed Package ID and Version being set incorrectly.
- 1.0.2
- Fixed ownership of items in package Payload.
- Changed salted sha1 shadow hash to upper case which fixes authentication on 10.5 and 10.6 (thanks to Allister Banks).
- 1.0.1
- Fixed postinstall script for 10.6 (thanks to Allister Banks).
- 1.0
- Initial release.
