This repo is now archived.
A FAR SUPERIOR TOOL IS AVAILBABLE HERE
Convert Active Directory Mobile Account to Local Account via Self Service
- Rich Trouton for the "meat" of this script - Rich's Script
- Patrick Gallagher (credited by Rich in his work) - MigrateUserHomeToDomainAcct.sh
- Lisa Davies (also credited by Rich in his work)
- Kevin Hendricks - Cocoa Dialog Progress bar example
- Deploy as a production tool at your own risk
- It needs more testing and more feedback
- It works great in "my" organization's environment, but needs a lot more testing
Functionally, this script pretty much does exactly what Rich's does.
Key differences:
- Intended for use with JAMF's Self Service
- GUI dialogs for user
- Suggests a new account name for user
- Allows user to change to something custom if he or she wishes to
- Lots of error contol
- User can't pick an existing account name
- User can't create account name with illegal characters
- User can't create an account if home directory for that account is already in /Users
- Unable to handle conversions if current user's home folder is not on same disk as the new home folder location. See below
- Added a check for user home directory location - it's ugly
- Determining home folder disk with variables
currentUserHome=`/usr/bin/dscl . -read /Users/$currentUser NFSHomeDirectory | sed -n 's|.* \(/.*\)|\1|p'`
currentUserDirDisk=`df "$currentUserHome" | awk '{print $1}' | tail -1`- Then compare to disk for "/Users"
- If they don't match - error message - can't continue
- The idea behind all this is that new local accounts will have home directories in standard /Users. If previous home directory was on a different disk than /Users - the rename of the home directory could potentially croak. (not enough disk space, etc.)
- Fixed bug - customizeLongName function was running a second time when not necessary