Script to enable/disable pop up blocker in Safari or perhaps to add a URL exception

[Snickasaurus]

I've done a fair amount of googling and came up with

To Disable the blocker
defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically 1
To Enable the blocker
defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically 0

But it doesn't seem to be effective on Safari version 6.0.5 and the website I found it on was for an older version of OS X. I'm usually pretty darn good at figuring things out but this has me pulling my hair out. Rarely do I seek out help but this time I'm REALLY hoping someone can throw me a rope here.

Any thoughts as to how I can do this so I can script it and push it out?

Thanks in advance.

[bentoms]

Are you the nick that replied to my site?

http://macmule.com/2012/07/31/disabling-safari-5-1-xs-6-xs-pop-up-blocker-from-terminal-2/

Sorry if so, I need to update that more!

Is this better?

Display Name:   Safari 5.1+ Disable Pop-Up Blocker      
Application Domain: com.apple.Safari        
Key Name:   com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2JavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically        
Key Type:   boolean     
Key Value:  true

[Snickasaurus]

Thanks for the reply! I can't check your site (though I've been there before) from our internal network but I'll have a look at it when I can throw a spare MacBook on our customer wlan.

I ran it like so in terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2JavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically -bool YES (per your site)

but above you put the key value to true so do I have to end that line with "TRUE" instead of "YES"?

Also is it supposed to show the "Block pop-up windows" unchecked? I'm running the command with Safari closed of course but when I open it and view Preferences it's still showing the box is checked. Just wondering. Again thanks for your response and help!!

[bentoms]

Sorry. Typo in blog.

Should be true as above & as I put in comments.

Amended the blog now!

Above is copied from my JSS.

[aaron_kelley]

I don't mean to bring up old comments, but i'm trying to run this as a Login/Recurring checkin policy to push out to teacher MacBooks and I can't get it to work. The policy runs, the script runs, and the policy log states below....
STEP 1 of 4]
Executing Policy Disable Pop-Up Blocker in Safari for Teachers
[STEP 2 of 4]
Running script Disable Pop-Up Blocker in Safari...
Script exit code: 0
Script result:
[STEP 3 of 4]
[STEP 4 of 4]

what am I doing wrong? I've tried to use SUDO in the script line as well. The script works completely fine when I open terminal directly on the device. Is the script in JSS not writing to the user level like if you were to open terminal?

[RobertHammen]

@aaron.kelley Scripts in Jamf run as the root user, not the currently-logged-in user, so you're setting that preference for the root user. You may need to do some scripting wizardry to determine the logged-in user and run the commands as them...

[aaron_kelley]

@RobertHammen I figured as much, but not sure how to do that, as i'm new to scripting.

[aaron_kelley]

Any ideas? I'm still stumped on this.

[millersc]

@aaron.kelley Give this a quick test...

#!/bin/bash

#Casper User variable
USER=$3

#Path to User's Safari plist
theFile=/Users/$USER/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist

defaults write $theFile  com.apple.Safari.ContentPageGroupIdentifier.WebKit2JavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically -bool true

[aaron_kelley]

@millersc that didn't work :/

[millersc]

Did it give any error? @aaron.kelley Also, I just noticed there is 2 spaces before "com.apple.Safari...." fix that and see again.

[aaron_kelley]

@millersc It did not. It says it completed. I did noticed the 2 spaces and fixed it and tried with same results. Now when I try just the defaults write in terminal, it's saying "could not write domain /Users/aaron.kelley/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari; exiting"

[aaron_kelley]

So for some reason my plist file is no longer in the ~/Library/Preferences folder...hmm.

EDIT: I copied it from my virtual testing machine. Plist is there again.

[aaron_kelley]

FYI, found the solution here. https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/22170/script-to-disable-pop-up-blocker-in-safari