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Hi,
For those of you still posting your EFI's with your own unique Serial No and ROM values inside your config.plist for all to view, use and potentially misuse, I thought that I should post this guide on how you can sanitise your config.plist before uploading to a forum.
The Manual Way;
The Easiest way to avoid posting your Serial No and ROM is to manually edit a copy of your config.plist by deleting your PlatformInfo and then copying the PlatformInfo from the OpenCore release sample.plist back to your copy of your own config.plist.
Finally, just change the PlatformInfo > Generic > SystemProductName back to what you are using e.g, iMac19,1, Save and done !
The OC-Anonymizer way;
OC-Anonymizer (by dreamwhite and contributor 5T33Z0) is a Python script that does this for you whilst remembering to reset ScanPolicy to 0, SecureBoot to Disabled and Vault to Optional amongst a few other settings (see their Features section of their Github page)
P.S. I like a good 'drag and drop" so if you found my instructions annoying (my apologies) then just use the instructions in the authors Github page.
Peace
For those of you still posting your EFI's with your own unique Serial No and ROM values inside your config.plist for all to view, use and potentially misuse, I thought that I should post this guide on how you can sanitise your config.plist before uploading to a forum.
The Manual Way;
The Easiest way to avoid posting your Serial No and ROM is to manually edit a copy of your config.plist by deleting your PlatformInfo and then copying the PlatformInfo from the OpenCore release sample.plist back to your copy of your own config.plist.
Finally, just change the PlatformInfo > Generic > SystemProductName back to what you are using e.g, iMac19,1, Save and done !
The OC-Anonymizer way;
OC-Anonymizer (by dreamwhite and contributor 5T33Z0) is a Python script that does this for you whilst remembering to reset ScanPolicy to 0, SecureBoot to Disabled and Vault to Optional amongst a few other settings (see their Features section of their Github page)
- Download the latest OC-Anonymizer and select Code and Download Zip
- Launch the Terminal and type ' cd ' without quotes and leave a space (Do Not press Enter)
- Drag the OC-Anonymizer-master folder from your Downloads folder into the Terminal window (after the space) and press Enter
- Type ' Python3 ' without quotes and leave a space (Do Not press Enter)
- Drag the oc_anonymizer.py script file from the OC-Anonymizer-master folder into the Terminal window and again, leave a space (Do Not press Enter)
- Drag your config.plist into the Terminal window after the space and press Enter
- There will now be a censored_config.plist in your OC-Anonymizer-master folder that you can upload.
- When you're uploading your EFI, don't forget to replace your original config.plist with the censored_config.plist and remember to rename it config.plist.
- Done !
P.S. I like a good 'drag and drop" so if you found my instructions annoying (my apologies) then just use the instructions in the authors Github page.
Peace