Apple Remote Desktop - Users & Groups

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Apple Remote Desktop - Users & Groups

What's up Group!

We've been tasked by management to disable/change a setting in System Prefs > Users & Groups > Login Options. We can no longer have List of Users selected. It now has to be set to Name and Password. They said it has to do with some kind of enterprise violation. We were wondering if there's a quick way of doing this via ARD with some kind of UNIX command or what have ya. We have to set this for a good 300+ computers. Any ideas on this? Thanks a bunch!

iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Mar 13, 2015 5:55 AM

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Answer 1

Machattan Author

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Mar 16, 2015 9:45 AM in response to Machattan

In case anyone is interested, this worked:

# Set the login window to name and passworddefaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow SHOWFULLNAME -booltrue

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Answer 2

Apr 11, 2015 6:11 AM in response to Machattan

You know, if you haven't looked into it yet, you should look at using Profile Manager (part of Server) to manage your Macs. This would have been a one or two click setting that would have been pushed to all your machines as they came on-line and checked in with the Server.

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