Disable User's Screen Lock in OSX | Community

Issue: All Self Service policies run as Root.
Objective: Disable User's Screen Lock

#!/bin/sh
Capture Active User
user=$(ls -l /dev/console | awk {' print $3 '})
Navigate to User Dir
path="/Users/$user/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver"
Disable Screen Lock
defaults write "$path" askForPassword -int 0 defaults write "$path" idleTime -int 7200 defaults write "$path" askForPassword -bool false
Update local ACL
chown $user:staff $path.plist
Finish
exit 0

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$3 is only the current user if the script is being run as a login policy.

Here's a previous previously posted thread on how to find the current user if you're not running at login: Running a script as the logged in user

$3 works when invoked via Self Service as per this article.

I modified the script this way:
Objective was to run it on a specific set of machines after login without involving the users.

#!/bin/sh
path="/Users/$3/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver"
su - $3 -c "defaults write "$path" askForPassword -int 0"
su - $3 -c "defaults write "$path" idleTime -int 7200"
su - $3 -c "defaults write "$path" askForPassword -bool false"
su - $3 -c "chown $3:staff $path.plist"
exit 0