---
title: LoginWindowScripts
framework: devicemanagement
role: symbol
role_heading: Device Management Profile
path: devicemanagement/loginwindowscripts
---

# LoginWindowScripts

The payload that configures scripts to run at login and logout.

## Declaration

```data
object LoginWindowScripts
```

## Properties

loginscripts: An array of one or more dictionaries of scripts to run at user login time. logoutscripts: An array of one or more dictionaries of scripts to run at user logout time. skipLoginHook: If true, the system doesn’t execute the login scripts during login. skipLogoutHook: If true, the system doesn’t execute the logout scripts during logout.

## Discussion

Discussion Specify com.apple.mcxloginscripts as the payload type. The MCX login and logout managed-scripts payload contains information about executable scripts that can run at user login and logout. To use this payload, set EnableMCXLoginScripts to true in /var/root/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist; otherwise, the system ignores this payload. Loginwindow uses the LoginHook and LogoutHook string keys in /var/root/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist to indicate a path to the executable script files, which run during user login and logout. The system passes the current user name as an argument to the file. Profile availability  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |  Profile example <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict>     <key>PayloadContent</key>     <array>         <dict>             <key>loginscripts</key>             <array>                 <dict>                     <key>filedata</key>                     <data>ExampleD</data>                     <key>filename</key>                     <string>ping.sh</string>                 </dict>             </array>             <key>skipLoginHook</key>             <true/>             <key>skipLogoutHook</key>             <true/>             <key>PayloadIdentifier</key>             <string>com.example.myloginwindowscriptspayload</string>             <key>PayloadType</key>             <string>com.apple.mcxloginscripts</string>             <key>PayloadUUID</key>             <string>2bcd5563-f44d-4f74-b706-050a628c0caf</string>             <key>PayloadVersion</key>             <integer>1</integer>         </dict>     </array>     <key>PayloadDisplayName</key>     <string>Login Window Scripts</string>     <key>PayloadIdentifier</key>     <string>com.example.myprofile</string>     <key>PayloadType</key>     <string>Configuration</string>     <key>PayloadUUID</key>     <string>5cbf617d-16a5-4564-ba2c-728fd7f7d732</string>     <key>PayloadVersion</key>     <integer>1</integer> </dict> </plist>

## Topics

### Objects

- [LoginWindowScripts.ScriptsItems](devicemanagement/loginwindowscripts/scriptsitems.md)

## See Also

### Login

- [LoginItemsManagedItems](devicemanagement/loginitemsmanageditems.md)
- [LoginWindowLoginItems](devicemanagement/loginwindowloginitems.md)
- [LoginWindow](devicemanagement/loginwindow.md)
- [ServiceManagementManagedLoginItems](devicemanagement/servicemanagementmanagedloginitems.md)