Manage Accounts scripts issue

[cashxx]

In the Manage Accounts scripts, the line that creates the password from serial is a small problem as it adds padding at the end with == for the password and if you have in the policy or configuration profile to now allow simple passwords it won't let you login as local admin because of the == at the end.

p=system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | awk '/Serial/ {print $4}' | tr '[A-Z]' '[K-WA-C]' | tr 3-6 4-90-3 | base64

Any idea on how to stop the padding or if it happens strip it so only the serial number of the computer is converted?

[MaxXyzzy]

You can add | sed 's/=//g' to the end of that line to remove the padding:

p=`system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | awk '/Serial/ {print $4}' | tr '[A-Z]' '[K-ZA-J]' | tr 0-9 4-90-3 | base64 | sed 's/=//g'`

[cashxx]

Ahh forgot about sed. Thanks, didn't think of that, will make note of that and try it. Should be added to script as not allow simple passwords I would think would be common setting people set. I also noticed that the password is spread all through logs. Not sure that is a good thing. This isn't the safest setup, but something and better than having the same password on everything. Thank you!

[feddy84REW]

This also seems to work fine, im rather new so its not that pretty :) p=$(echo -n "$(system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | awk '/Serial/ {print $4}')" | tr '[A-Z]' '[K-ZA-J]' | tr 0-9 4-90-3 | base64) its not just the == and since i was doing the script to get the base64 from a windows device my padding was "Cg==" so i needed to it cleaner