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Allow non-Admin users to modify system preferences
Authored by: masskinner on Aug 07, '03 11:14:40AM

I believe this technique works for you, but only because the System Preferences you are dealing with are accessible to unprivileged users by default. If you try this trick with DateAndTime, it will not work.

chmod -R +s recursively sets the user id (SUID) on execution.

So far, modifying the /etc/authorization file seems to be the best solution. Perhaps the trick is to combine that with file permissions as well. In other words: modify the authorization file to allow everyone to modify the system prefs, then lock the users out of certain system prefs by changing the individual file and folder permissions. -S

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