Using niutil to manage user accounts

Let's say you've assumed responsibility for managing a new group of Mac OS X machines. These machines were previously set up by a variety of people, and have different local admin account names and passwords. To simplify your life, you want to standardize the local admin account name and password, and additionally, create a way to update the local admin password periodically.

Here's an article I wrote for MacEnterprise.org that shows you one way to change the name, home directory and password for the admin account on your managed machines using a Perl script andnituil.

Posted: Sun - January 2, 2005 at 09:00 AM

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Using niutil to manage user accounts

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