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Mac Packaging Cheatsheet

Create a component pkg from a DMG

pkgbuild --component /Volumes/ApplicationName/*.app --install-location \
    /Applications ApplicationName-Version.pkg

Install pkg from command line

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sysadminctl is a tool Apple introduced in 10.10 for working with system user accounts. In 10.13, 
sysadminctl is Apple's recommended tool for working with user accounts in the CLI, replacing functionality 
that has long been provided by dscl and adds new features available only in 10.13. 
sysadminctl can be used to change user passwords, create new users (including automatically provisioning 
the user home folder) or check the status of a new-to-10.13 security feature named SecureToken.

SecureToken is a user attribute like password type or user home location. SecureToken is not publicly 
documented by Apple so it is not possible to provide a full technical description, but in practice one 
needs only to know if a user has SecureToken or not. Having SecureToken set signifies that a user can 
unlock a FileVault-encrypted volume. Without the SecureToken bit on a user account, that user will not 

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How to Download iOS Simulator (Xcode) in Command Line and Install it

For faster connection speed and more flexibility.

Steps

0. Start Xcode in command line by running this in commandline /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/MacOS/Xcode
1. Start downloading of the simulator
2. Cancel it. YES CANCEL IT!
3. You will get a message like this:

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#!/usr/bin/python
#
# getosversionfromdmg.py
#
# Copyright (c) 2014 The Regents of the University of Michigan
#
# Retrieves the OS version and build from the InstallESD.dmg contained in
#    a typical "Install (Mac) OS X <Name>.app" bundle.
#
# To run:

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#!/usr/bin/python
"""Enables location services, allows Maps and Timezone"""
import os
import platform
import subprocess
import sys
try:
    sys.path.append('/usr/local/munki/munkilib/')
    import FoundationPlist
except ImportError as error:

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# Tested on 10.11
# Assumes your network is in a state to actually do the discovery
# (Generally this means wifi enabled on your device and network stack is up)
#
# Note: When this code exits, it will generate an error message - this is to be expected!
# Error will look like:
#  Python[3056:158489] PyObjC: Exception during dealloc of proxy: Cannot remove an observer <TimeZonePref 0x7f846b4b6710>
#  for the key path "enabled" from <ATZAdminPrefererences 0x7f846b502a30> because it is not registered as an observer.
#
# This is because we're cheating with the initialization of a TimeZonePref class to get cheap access to 

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# This code must run as root

# We're mixing ObjC and C-style dylibs, so this is really fun
# The only reason we're doing this is that the OS is _really really_ picky about trying to do
# ANYTHING with the CoreStorage Family Properties CFDictionary that's in-memory EXCEPT for
# making a mutable copy of it.

# Once we've done that, we can bring it into pyObjC to play nicely with the data.

import objc

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###Test Code###
### Intention is to figure out what JDK the user has installed.
### our current Ext atty reports the JRE, we need to know they have the JDK 
## thanks to elliotjordon
## -00 is just a number to say that JDK is not installed.  makes for better smartgroup searches
###############
if JDKver=$(ls "/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines" | awk -F "_|.jdk" '/.jdk/{print $2}' | tail -1)
  then
  echo "<result>$JDKver</result>"
#      else

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#!/usr/bin/python
import plistlib, os.path

# Based off of https://forums.developer.apple.com/message/6741

def jdk_info_plists():
    # Find all the JDK Info.plist files
    JDK_ROOT = "/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines"
    if (os.path.exists(JDK_ROOT) and os.path.isdir(JDK_ROOT)):
        # It's present, let's look for installs

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#!/bin/bash

# Add the user and group used by Tomcat on your Linux
# server. For Casper 9.x running on Red Hat Enterprise 
# Linux, the user and group are filled in below.

linux_tomcat_user="tomcat7"
linux_tomcat_group="tomcat7"

# Add the user and group used by Tomcat on your Linux