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10.7: Unlock screens using any admin password
Authored by: Chanfan on Nov 13, '13 04:33:58PM
I have yet to test, but I'm thinking that the following has the info for what changed in 10.9 (as I noted my script to set this fails on 10.9 systems as well).

http://www.dssw.co.uk/blog/2013/10/26/authorization-rights-and-mavericks/

In it, they note that the /etc/authorization file is depreciated, and that the settings now appear to reside in /var/db/auth.db.

I tried out the authbuddy util (on my 10.8.5 system, which has been modified), and it does report, if you do a "get 'system.login.screensaver', that it's set to

{ class = rule;
comment = "(Use SecurityAgent.) The owner or any administrator can unlock the screensaver.";
rule = "authenticate-session-owner-or-admin";
}

Hopefully, I'll get to test this out on new 10.9 system in short order.

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