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This worklet can be run against Mac Hosts to standardize hostnames. This is valuable to our org in that we have a hostname standard of username-macbookModel that helps us identify the machine. You can change whatever values you’d like to accomodate your org.



Evaluation Code:



pro="-MBPro"


air="-MBAir"


emp=$(stat -f%Su /dev/console)





mbpro="${emp}${pro}"


mbair="${emp}${air}"





if f  $HOSTNAME = "${mbpro}" ]] || |  $HOSTNAME = "${mbair}" ]]; then


  exit 0


else


  exit 1 


fi


Remediation code:



#!/bin/bash


# The script will identify the current logged in user and machine type and it will


# run as root and will set hostname to: user-computer type based on the information returned





pro="-MBPro"


air="-MBAir"


model=$(sysctl hw.model | sed 's/s0-9,]//g' | awk '/^/a-zA-Z]/ {print $2}')


emp=$(stat -f%Su /dev/console)





case "${model}" in


    "MacBookPro" )


    sudo scutil --set ComputerName "${emp}${pro}"


    sudo scutil --set LocalHostName "${emp}${pro}"


    sudo scutil --set HostName "${emp}${pro}"


    sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server NetBIOSName -string "${emp}${pro}"





    ;;


    "MacBookAir" )


    sudo scutil --set ComputerName "${emp}${air}"


    sudo scutil --set LocalHostName "${emp}${air}"


    sudo scutil --set HostName "${emp}${air}"


    sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server NetBIOSName -string "${emp}${air}"


esac

This is great, Mat!



I modified the script to achieve a different goal:



Some customers have an MDM solution that sets the ComputerName automatically upon endpoint provisioning. This script will check wether the LocalHostName or HostName do not match the ComputerName and will true them up to the ComputerName if there is a discrepancy.



Evaluation:



#!/bin/bash





#Get the ComputerName, LocalHostName, HostName values


enforced_name=`sudo scutil --get ComputerName`


localhostname=`sudo scutil --get LocalHostName`


hostname=`sudo scutil --get HostName`





#Check that LocalHostName and HostName are set to the same value as ComputerName


#If they match, exit gracefully; if they don't match, set the exit bit for remediation


if [[ "$localhostname" == "$enforced_name" && "$hostname" == "$enforced_name" ]]; then


  exit 0


else


  exit 1


fi


Remediation:



#!/bin/bash





#Get the ComputerName


enforced_name=`sudo scutil --get ComputerName`


#MacOS will not accept spaces in LocalHostName, so we check for spaces in the ComputerName and IFF they exist, replace them with dashes


refactored_name=$(sed 's/ /-/g' <<< "$enforced_name")





#Set the LocalHostName, HostName and NetBIOS variables to match the ComputerName


sudo scutil --set LocalHostName $refactored_name


sudo scutil --set HostName $refactored_name


sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server NetBIOSName -string "$refactored_name"





>#Echo the results into the logs. Everything below this line is optional and can be commented out or removed.


lhostname=`sudo scutil --get LocalHostName`


hostname=`sudo scutil --get HostName`


echo "LocalHostName has been set to: $lhostname"


echo "HostName has been set to: $hostname"

Nice, this is a great adaptation!

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