RLR Posted July 6, 2017 Posted July 6, 2017 Is it possible to filevault machines in a shared environment? As I see it at the moment it seems only specific filevault managers can unlock a hard drive to use once the machine has been restarted. This doesn't help in a shared environment as students will be using them. I'm trying to protect the MACs incase someone picks one up and takes it off site as they're quite easily removed. The rooms are secure but would still like to encrypt the hard drives.
AntonioRocco Posted July 6, 2017 Posted July 6, 2017 (edited) You should be able to manually enable FileVault for as many users that share those Macs. Just enable it in the relevant part of security preferences pane. Only potential problem I can see is the amount of users you're trying to do this for as well as having sufficient disk space. Its more than possible to script this and make it part of your deployment tool. Alternatively use ARD to send the relevant commands. Consult the relevant command line manual pages for the OS installed on your Macs as it has changed since Mavericks 10.9. In El Capitan and newer its 'man fdesetup'. In Mavericks its 'man fdsetup'. Der Flounder has some useful information relating to it: https://derflounder.wordpress.com/?s=FileVault+2 Antonio Rocco (ACSA) Edited July 6, 2017 by AntonioRocco
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