Hi there,

Hope this isn't too complex of a script to try to make but this is what I'm trying to do.

Create a new group and add local users that aren't admin to the group.

So let's say the new group is 'cats' and 'dog' is the only admin on the machine. Let's say most machines only have one or two users but they're going to be different on each machine.


Since the name of the non-admin username(s) on each machine is a variable, I'm thinking the best way to add users to the 'cats' group is to go by Group ID but the only groups I know of are Wheel, Staff and Admin. All users on the Mac are a member of Staff by default so is there an identifier that represents a non-admin user which I can use to add them to the 'cats' group?

Hope that makes sense.

Here's what I have so far but it isn't much and I'll be honest, I can't figure from the dseditgroup man pages to do this.

Code:

"!/bin/bash
sudo dseditgroup -o create -n . cats
dscl -u <username/gid> . -append /Groups/cats GroupMembership <username/groupID>

Should I use dscl to append the group or continue to use dseditgroup?

If you happen to be one of those whizzo's that can just whip one of these from the hip, be prepared, I'll probably ask 'why' you decided to do something a certain way so I can learn. I'm not just looking for someone to write it out so I don't have to think.

I really have been googling all over trying to figure this out. Just seems like a little coaching from you experts would sure help.

Is this even a do-able thing? I've been trying to figure it out but bash scripting is new to me but something I'd like to learn. Seems like a very powerful way of getting a lot of repetitive tasks done.

Thanks in advance!

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I guess another way would be to create the group and add all users only tell it to somehow ignore 'dog'.

Not sure if that's possible. I didn't see a way to 'ignore' users.

Also saw dsimport but that seems a bit excessive.

Thanks again,

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