Workstation Admin

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

• system restore scripts
• persistent machine-specific settings
• nightly app settings resets
• nightly repo fetches
• ad-hoc scripts (e.g. force-refresh Github tabs)

Local Computer Data

We use the recovery partition to save some basic computer data such as id, pod, and station so that it will persist between restores. This data is used to set the device hostname and to keep track of settings for some scripts.

Settings script

To set this data, use the ./settings script. This requires sudo. For example:

sudo ./settings set id=15 pod=SoMa station=3

You can also remove a key by leaving the value blank:

sudo ./settings set id=3 pod= station=

There's another important feature: set-local. This allows you to set data locally only. That way it will not persist after the computer resets. Typically this is done when giving a computer to a job search student:

sudo ./settings set-local student="Jane Doe" reset-data=false

Specific meanings.

You'll need to update this data to stay in sync with these requirements:

key	meaning
id	ID # stuck on top of the machine. Every machine should have this set.
pod	only set for machines that are on the floor
station	# in the pod. Only set for floor machines
student	name of student this computer is loaned to (only set if it is loaned)
reset-data	reset the desktop and app data every night (true/false)

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.

Prepare to Clone.

Follow the same steps to ready the computer for the dotfiles. You don't need to download the dotfiles though. That will happen automatically later.

Clone the repo.

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

Install workstation-admin.

This will install and configure the workstation, running the dotfiles scripts, augmenting them, and adding hooks for maintenance scripts to run.

setup/install

Clear app data.

Chrome

1. Clear all browsing data from "the beginning of time".
2. Quit (⌘Q)
3. Run setup/disable_chrome_signin_prompt

Slack

Quit (⌘Q)

Cache the settings.

setup/cache_app_data