Workstation Admin

This is the repo where we manage all the admin scripts that the student computers use. This includes:

• system restore scripts
• nightly app settings resets
• nightly repo fetches
• GCA bash function

Setup

You should only need to do this when creating a new disk image. You must complete all the previous steps from the workstation image spec or workstation-admin will cache an old version of the settings and overwrite your changes in the first night.

Disable SIP

Apple has an important security measure called System Integrity Protection that prevents certain changes to system files even in root mode. This unfortunately interferes with the admin install scripts. However, it does not interfere with everyday operation, so you only need to do this on the machine where you create the workstation image.

1. Restart the machine in recovery mode (hold down ⌘R).
2. Click on the Utilities menu and choose Terminal.
3. Enter the command csrutil disable. This will disable SIP.
4. Restart the machine again.

Prepare to Clone.

Follow the procedure for setting up our computer environment from the curriculum.

Clone the repo.

git clone https://github.com/appacademy/workstations.git ~/.workstation-admin

Install workstation-admin.

This will add the extra packages and configuration needed to for this repo to work properly.

setup/install

Clear app data.

Chrome

1. Clear all browsing data from "the beginning of time".
2. Quit (⌘Q)

Slack

Quit (⌘Q)

Cache the settings.

setup/cache_app_data