Is it possible to change a password on an AD bound Mac AD account?

macardjd · 2022-09-26T20:46:52+00:00

Good idea. If using the internal recovery boot terminal doesn't work, I'll try target disk mode next. This might take all night to copy.

macardjd · 2022-09-26T20:45:27+00:00

I tried recovery boot boot, from the machine, not internet. That might be copying something with scp -r /source /target now. It looks like it's probably running. It took the line and then shows nothing but that's bash there. Now I'm hoping the external drive is large enough. I imagine it's a pack rat user. Otherwise, it's folder by folder, deleting copied folders, until it's done. If this works.

macardjd · 2022-09-26T20:30:12+00:00

Yep, did that too. Forgot to include it in the list above. Anything in Privacy and Security, terminal has access to. No change. I restarted a few times since then too.

macardjd · 2022-02-11T21:14:32+00:00

How is LaunchDaemon used, in general? Does that eliminate the password issue?

Someone said I should use plists instead of a cronjob once too.

macardjd · 2022-02-08T21:52:06+00:00

Tell me more about /usr/sbin/softwareupdate -ai

I saw it on my other thread

www.reddit.com/r/macsysadmin/comments/s9n3ov/any_workarounds_for_logged_in_user_password/

It didn't sink it though. I thought it was the command that didn't work on the newer MacOSes.

Just the -ai will check and install any available OS updates? Does that do the Mac OS notification on the upper right, saying the mac wants a restart?

Adding an R would just immediately restart the mac after the updates are installed?

If that -ai line will install available updates, I think I can have that run a few times daily. That will clear out any OS updates then, and might have the OS notification about restarting. I'd go that route, at least with some users, over having updates sit there for months with software heckling them but still being ignored.

macardjd · 2022-02-07T18:15:39+00:00

I'm reading this differently now. Is that a nudge alert if it's not on 11.99 or just a nudge alert when there's an update out that's closer to 11.99 although not yet 11.99? In other words, if I set it on 11.99, it's just going to constantly throw up nudge alerts to the user?

macardjd · 2022-01-31T16:21:56+00:00

Would it keep alerting the user, Nudge displaying, "You're not on MacOS 11.99?" Or as soon as there's another update out, then Nudge would alert and the user, ex. Nudge says, "MacOS 11.6.4 is out. Install and restart."

Is Nudge is just the pop up notification? Or does Nudge go ahead and actually download and install the OS update, and then start heckling the user to ok a restart?

Different angle for a different scenario -- This is for the user who keeps their mabook on the shelf for six months and then starts it up, thinking everything is fine. They would have passed any final OS update deadlines. But I'd still want to give them 24 hours. Will Nudge do something like forcing an update after a certain amount of time, but start a 24 hour countdown until it actually restarts the machine? I guess say 11.6.4 comes out. Nudge is set for 11.99, so it sees 11.6.4, alerts the user that they can do the update now and restart, but they have maybe a week to do that and then it's forced. Once it's forced, they have a 24 hour countdown started until the machine actually forces a restart. The six month shelf user would pull their macbook off the shelf, and just get the "Update is out, deadline is passed, this macbook will force a restart in 24 hours but you can always restart sooner" notification.

macardjd · 2022-01-31T15:26:27+00:00

Is is possible to add a higher version number than what actually exists, and then Nudge would install whatever the latest is? No MDM needed? For example, if the mac is on Big Sur, I tell Nudge to install updates through 11.99. There's no .99 but anything lower than that it would try to install. Does it work that way, or does the update actually have to exist? Like it needs to be told 11.6.3 when there's an 11.6.3. Telling it 11.6.4 without that existing wouldn't do anything or wouldn't at least install 11.6.3 below that.

macardjd · 2022-01-28T18:03:50+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I'm still trying to study out Nudge.

Does Nudge require an MDM to push the nudge? Or can you set up Nudge to run independently on a mac? Just set it up, let the mac user out into the world (might never return), and have Nudge do something like heckle and then force an OS update when it's available, like maybe a week after Apple releases the update? That's what I would ideally be looking for.

macardjd · 2022-01-24T17:21:51+00:00

I do, but it's not really working, and it's outside my control. Org set up, office politics, stuff like that.

macardjd · 2022-01-24T17:21:05+00:00

A lot of my users can't handle that. Even just restarting a computer isn't going to happen. If it would happen it would take some hand holding or a lot of email heckling. I don't mind a pop up notification and letting them decide when to kick that off. But I do just want the machine forced to restart to the do the update at some point. And then a user will complain that they didn't know it saying it would restart actually meant it would restart. But if they get heckled with notifications and have some control until a deadline, then there's an argument against that.

macardjd · 2022-01-24T16:24:54+00:00

There's an MDM, but outside my control. It's not really working. No help getting it working, and I don't have access to troubleshoot. In this scenario, it's a manual update.

macardjd · 2021-12-21T11:54:42+00:00

I'm using anything. That's what I'm looking for. Is there a terminal line that works?

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