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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Login/Logout script Post 302374115 by [MA]Flying_Meat on Monday 23rd of November 2009 12:49:58 PM
Old 11-23-2009
Remote login must be turned on, or some add-on app must accept commands on a listening port. Third party apps include LANDesk, LanRev, or even ARD (not technically an add-on, since the agent is included with the OS.

If remote login is enabled on B, then ssh <an_admin_username>@B
enter the password for that admin username, then type the command to perform.

I find it easier to put a loginhook and/or a logouthook on the machine, then no remote login needs to occur from then on.

The -hook files contain the path to the script to perform if logname is the name in question, else exit. If you've logged in remotely, you'll need to grep the output of "who" for the username you are looking for.

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook /path/to/script

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LogoutHook /path/to/script

Then, no matter whether you are there to issue a command remotely or not, the scripts can run whenever the target username logs in.

If you need to remove the login or logout hooks:
defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook
and/or
defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow LogoutHook

You could delete the scripts too, but without the hooks calling them, they are basically just text files with commands. /path/to/script is generally somewhere users don't mess with. I use /usr/local/sbin/, myself.
 

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gss(5)							      BSD File Formats Manual							    gss(5)

NAME
gss -- how to configure gss framework DESCRIPTION
The gss GSS.frameworks have several configuration domains, all can configured with defaults(1). Configuration can be stored both in the user's configuration ( ~/Library/Preferences) and system ( /Library/Preferences ). CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
Use gsstool(1) to list the supported options and their settings: gsstool supported-mech --options Common options are: NTLM 'Force NTLMv1' Force client to use NTLMv1 NTLM NTLMv1 Enable support for NTLMv1 in both client and server NTLM NTLMv2 Enable support for NTLMv2 in both client and server NTLM 'NTLM session key' Require backends to support for NTLMv2 session key, Lion and earlier dont support this. Session keys is required for NTLM MIC that stops reflection attacks. NTLM 'AllowedHosts' What hosts that NTLM is allowed to be used for. When there a host that is not on the list, NTLM will not be used. File globbing is used when matching and it's case insensitive. When there is no configuration, all hosts are allowed. defaults write com.apple.GSS.NTLM AllowedHosts -array host.local '*.my.domain' NTLM options If you want to disable NTLM support completely in both the acceptor (server) and initiator (client), you need disable both NTLMv1 and NTLMv2, and set their values to boolean false or 0. defaults write com.apple.GSS.NTLM NTLMv1 -bool false defaults write com.apple.GSS.NTLM NTLMv2 -bool false APPLE MAC OS X
You can use the defaults write command to change the options, for simple boolean options, use this: defaults write com.apple.GSS.NTLM NTLMv1 -bool false You can also turn on debugging (output in syslog) using: defaults write com.apple.GSS DebugLevel -int 10 open -a Console SEE ALSO
defaults(1), gss_mo(3), heimdal_debug(1) HEIMDAL
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