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Go back to Directory Utility under System Preferences and disable the root user.Click to expand.Up to macOS Capitan, the installation of any software was a piece of cake, since macOS Sierra (macOS 10.13), the system partition may not be accessed by any other third-party software. Account migration should now be complete.ģ1. Log out as root and log in as AD user.ģ0. Now, in Batchmod, browse to the user’s Public folder and select the Drop Box folder and apply the following permissions: Step 4: Final Steps:Ģ9. Apply permissions EXACTLY as follows and make sure ALL options are checked (above image): Step 3: Reset User folder Permissions – Continued Open Batchmod and browse to the user’s user folder.Ģ7. Go to gear and select ‘Apply to Enclosed Items’ Step 2: Steps 25-27 – Reset User folder Permissions and ACLsĢ6. Under the ‘Name’ column in the ‘Sharing Permissions:’ section, you will see an owner account listed and under the ‘Name’ column, it may read ‘Fetching’. Set ‘Domain Users’ group permissions to be Read Only.Ģ3. Click + and add Network Groups and add ‘Domain Users’Ģ1. Select user, click gear and choose ‘Make user owner’Ģ0. Set the user with Read, Write permissions. Click + and add Network User and type in and select the correct AD user and click ok.ġ9. Select the User folder and choose Get info.ġ8. The name of the user folder needs to match the AD username.ġ6. Go the the user folder and delete the ‘(Deleted)’ and any spaces from the folder name. Restart computer, log back in as root, and empty trash.ġ5. Navigate to Users folder/new AD user folder and delete new AD user folder. Log Out of AD account and log back in as root.ġ4.

Skip any configuration prompts upon login.ġ3. At login screen, select Other… and log into computer with AD account and if prompted, select the option for ‘Create Mobile Account’. This will rename the user folder by adding ‘(Deleted)’ at the end of the folder. At the Delete prompt, select option to ‘Don’t change the home folder (the home folder remains in the user folder). Select the local user account that you want to migrate to an AD account and choose Delete (-).ġ0. Continue back to Users & Groups in System Preferences and continue to next step.ĩ. Choose create mobile account at login and then click OK. Authenticate with appropriate credentials. Click the triangle to the left of the window to expand the Active Directory options. If you have not bound computer to domain, double click ‘Active Directory’ in the Directory Utility. If you have already added the computer to the domain and configured option to create mobile account at login, close Directory Utility and go back to Users & Groups in System Preferences and continue to next step.

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Set a password for the root user if not already set.Ĩ. In Open Directory Utility, authenticate as an admin and go to the Edit menu and enable the Root user if not already enabled. Click the ‘Edit’ or ‘Join’ button next to Network Account Server.ħ. Authenticate to unlock Preference Pane.ĥ. Go to System Preferences -> Users and Groups -> and click on Login OptionsĤ. Log into the computer under any Admin account other than the account that needs to be migrated.ģ. First ensure that the local mac user account password matches the password for the AD account that you want to migrate to.Ģ. It is also a good idea to back up the local user folder in Disk Utility before starting but once you do this a few times, you won’t feel its that necessary. Note: This method was tested on several OS X Yosemite systems only but since you are not relying on someone else’s scripts, I’m sure this method can easily be applied to other OS versions. Let’s forget the terminal and use a straight forward method that in my experience, produced reliable results.

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The problem with this is you are relying on someone else’s script that may error out halfway though and you are left not knowing how to fix it or how to continue.

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There are other solutions available that I came across that require you to download a script and run it in Terminal or run various Terminal commands. Fool-proof, step-by-step instructions for converting a local Mac user to an AD network user after binding user’s Mac to AD.