/usr/bin/profiles fails with network users

Originator:gregneagle
Number:rdar://13118791 Date Originated:30 Jan 2013
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:Mac OS X Product Version:10.8.2
Classification:other bug Reproducible:always
 
30-Jan-2013 02:18 PM Greg Neagle:
Summary:
/usr/bin/profiles refuses to install user-level profiles for network users

Steps to Reproduce:
Make a user-level configuration profile to configure Mail, Contacts, Calendar, or Messages.

Login as a network user. From the command-line:

/usr/bin/profiles -I -F /path/to/profile.mobileconfig

Expected Results:

Profile is installed and application is configured.

Actual Results:

profiles.AddAProfile user cannot be found in local DS
profiles install for file:'/path/to/profile' and user:'redacted' returned -4570 (The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -4570.))

Regression:

Notes:

This issue does NOT occur when installing profiles manually in the GUI.
This same profile installs fine when double-clicked; the Profiles preference pane installs the profile and the app is configured.

Comments

I believe this has been fixed in OS X 10.9.

Ran into the same issue, but this didn't reproduce on Mavericks.

By Jun.Jeon at Nov. 20, 2013, 5:49 a.m. (reply...)

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