On 3/16/12 8:54 AM, Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) wrote: > Hey, Macaholics - -- ----- - - > > My daughter's school has draconian policies for administering their > MacBooks. In short: they can't. I won't go off on a rant, as in her > old school they had rights, and as far as I know there were not > problems. However, the policy means that kids can't even run disk > utilities. As I watched her computer slowly die as she headed toward > midterms, I muttered many unpleasantries under my breath. > > The question is this: is there a way (that would be reasonably easy > for school IT folks) to allow selective administrative functions to > users? While Googlizing this question, I noticed some linux command > line hacks that would let one assume administrative rights. I am > looking at this a bit. Comments?
The way to grant selective administration rights is via /etc/sudoers. They'd make your daughter a member of the "students" group, and then grant specific administration rights to "students". Then, your daughter could open a Terminal and sudo -s, and gain the admin. permissions allowed. You know, by default, Macs let the main user sudo in for full root privileges. Have you tried that? Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
