Set a User Agreement Policy to Appear Before Login in Mac OS X Lion
Mac OS X Lion can display messages that require acknowledgement prior to the standard login screen appearing. For administrators, this allows a user agreement or acceptable use policy to be displayed before users can login, and for personal use it lets users include a customized message before logging into a Mac.
How to Create & Set a Login User Agreement in Mac OS X
For OS X 10.7 or later:
- Open TextEdit and create an RTF containing the the user agreement login message, save this file named as “PolicyBanner” and be sure the extension is .rtf or .rtfd
- From the Finder, hit Command+Shift+G to bring up the “Go To Folder” window and enter the following path:
- Copy the previously created PolicyBanner.rtf to the /Library/Security/ folder
- Authenticate the file transfer by entering the administrators password
/Library/Security/
Note: /Library/ is different than the user ~/Library/, with the former being system-wide and the latter being user specific.
To confirm the policy banner is active, log out and log back into the Mac. The user agreement will popup before the standard login screen, and must be accepted before a user can login to the Mac.
Clicking “Accept” will return the standard login screen:
To further customize the Mac login process, add a message to the OS X Lion login screen itself or change the login wallpaper to something other than the default linen.
i didn’t found policy banner docs in library.
i checked users library security docs and system hdd>library>i didnt see security docs
i am using 10.7.2 lion
you have to create sutch a document and copy it into the
/Library/Secuiyty folder
Yes place it in the /Library/Security/ folder
ok thx
Where can I find that wallpaper?
We posted about them a while back, you can get it here:
http://bazdesh.deviantart.com/art/Space-Aurora-198266581
http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/20/6-beautiful-aurora-wallpapers/
Thanks
How’d you get the images into the user agreement?
Nevermind. I am dumb.
Copy and paste them in, it will save as an RTFD
Will this work with FileVault II?
Yes it works but appears after login just before the Desktop appears.
i created policebanner files on textedit. i wrote some sentences. (Extensions is rtf)
after that
Copy the previously created PolicyBanner.rtf to the /Library/Security/ folder but it didnt appear
i have not a security folder in HDD library but users library have.
ok ok i solved the problem. it works
Do they have it for windows xp and 7
It is Mac OS X Lion, not Windows Lion Edition+
Works perfectly, absolutely brilliant
It doesn’t work for me, I followed everything.
Ok solved it,I made a mistake,should put it in the security folder not in security agents plugins folder
it didn’t work for me, i tried everything you said..and check it, but nothing at all..
i have Mac OS X 10.7.2!!!!
thanks
Just did it and it works fine
Mac OS X 10.7.2 (havent bothered upgrading to .3 yet)
Hi
I’m trying to get this to work with snow leopard, anyone know how? I have tried it on lion and it works fine but i need to have it on a suite of macs running 10.6.8
Thanks
I have found that I have to do a chown and a chmod on the file after I copy it into the /Library/Security/ folder. This may be because I am pulling the file off of a server, but in any case, it doesn’t appear to work unless the owner of the file is root:wheel and the permissions are set to 755 with chmod.
Anyone else finding this to be the case?
It’s not a big deal, but it is an extra couple of steps I had to do to make this work.
Is there a way to adjust the timing at which the banner appears?
At the moment, if you first click accept, but for whatever reason wait at the login window for more than 60 seconds, the banner will reappear.
I’ve looked around but cannot find where there might be a setting to change this timeout.