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Allow non-Admin users to modify system preferences
Authored by: inprat on Aug 25, '08 06:28:23PM

I'm not sure if you have solved this problem, but i figured out a way of doing what you're looking for, but in Leopard.

I was in the same situation as yours, but the only different is that i'm managing a school's network. There are older G4 macs around here, and it looks like the motherboard's battery is out of power and therefore most of them are losing the time and date settings everytime, which caused a lot of problems for students.

I'm intending to create an evironment where students can login and able to change the date and time settings themselves without admin password.

At the end, i created the student account as admin, but i took some crucial system preferences from it's folder and leave some that are safe for the students to change/play around (i.e. display, time and date, network, appearance), and install the rest on another admin account but only for that admin user, so no other users can see those on their syspref panel. For safety reason I make sure the system replaces the student's homefolder with a fresh one everytime they login.

I hope that helps. please let me know if you have any questions.

Ciao



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