Scripting Jamf: Best Practices – Virtual JNUC 2020

These are the slides and notes to my presentation “Scripting Jamf: Best Practices” from October 1, 2020 at the Virtual JNUC 2020.

• Slides: Keynote on iCloud, PDF
• Video of the session (Virtual JNUC 2020 playlist)

You may also want to watch my MacSysAdmin Online 2020 session on “Practical Scripting.”

Shell Environment and Configuration

Note: many of these are articles I wrote a while past. At the time bash was the default shell on macOS. However, since zsh is mostly compatible with bash, many of the examples and suggestions will work as well. I explain the differences from zsh to bash in my post series “Moving to zsh” and (in more detail) in my book of the same name.

bash

• About bash_profile and bashrc on macOS
• On bash Environment Variables
• Configuring bash with aliases and functions
• Minimal Terminal Prompt

zsh

• Moving to zsh, part 2: Configuration Files
• Moving to zsh, part 3: Shell Options
• Moving to zsh, part 4: Aliases and Functions

PATHs

• Where PATHs come from
• Setting the PATH in Scripts

Current User

• Get Current User in Shell Scripts on macOS
• Getting the current user in macOS – Update

Scripting root

• Running a Command as another User
• root and Scripting
• User Interaction from bash Scripts

Managing the Desktop Picture

• desktoppr on GitHub
• Strategies to using desktoppr

AppleScript, Privacy, and PPPC

• Avoiding AppleScript Security and Privacy Requests
• Reading TCC Logs in Macos – Carl Ashley (Link goes to an archive pdf, search for the title)
• Coding Signing Scripts for PPPC Whitelisting – Carl Ashley (Link goes to an archive pdf, search for the title)
• Allowing Outset-run scripts to have access to user folders – Alan Siu

Profile Tools

• PPPC Utility 2
• ProfileCreator
• iMazing Profile Editor

MacAdmins Slack

I hope you enjoyed the session, and if you have any more questions or comments, then I am @scriptingosx on the MacAdmins Slack and Twitter.