Prompt and dynamically create user

[timothy perfitt]

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[timothy perfitt]

MDS doesn't currently dynamically create a user at install time, but it would be a relatively easy feature to add

5:00 PM

it is possible to use the pycreateuserpkg. their is a macos compiled command line tool that creates a package, then you could install it

5:00 PM

it is a round about way to do it, but greg neagle has a ton of logic and options for edge cases

5:03 PM

in fact, MDS has the binary inside it

5:03 PM

look at /Applications/MDS.app/Contents/Resources/pycreateuserpkg/pkg_scripts/createuser

5:04 PM

it is used by the package installer to just pass a OD plist to it and then it creates the user

5:04 PM

so have your script insert the username into a preset plist then run that binary on it, and it should create the user (edited)