Posts Tagged ‘Admin
Migrate Local User to Domain Account
If you are migrating your machines to authenticate via Active Directory, you may need to convert your local user accounts and their home folders to an AD user account and retain the home folder. I had a script posted here but that version was Tiger only because it used NI* commands.
Add user to admin group with Applescript
Need a way for your team to easily make a network or local user an admin? Copy and paste the code below into Script Editor (Applescript Editor in 10.6) and save it as an application. This can be used before deploying a machine to the user, or after they’ve logged in.
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Add user to admin group
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Allow Non-Admin users to Manage Printers
Apple added a "feature" to Leopard which restricts non administrator users from managing printers on their Macs. While this is desired behavior on a public machine such as a classroom, it is a problem for single user machines such as faculty, staff and 1:1 deployments.
OS X as a workstation for UNIX admins
Here is an interesting article from a Unix SysAdmin explaining why he prefers to use a Mac for his day to day admining.
How to add an AD user as a local admin
We all know the obvious way to allow a given group(s) to be an admin of a Mac bound to Active Directory (see image below).
Although the “Allow administration by group” setting in Directory Access allows users in that group to installsoftware and perform certain other admin functions, there is a bug (or feature?) in Tiger [...]
