Screensaver bug if machine left on over night 10.6

i think those are two separate issues. there should be no difference in this behavior when using an image generated with instadmg. it doesn't do anything magic to /etc/authorization, unless you include components that do so.

it's pretty easy to manipulate the authorization file with puppet's built in macauthorization resource type, like so:

macauthorization { 'system.login.screensaver': ensure => 'present', auth_class => 'rule', auth_type => 'right', comment => '(Use SecurityAgent.) The owner or any administrator can unlock the screensaver.', rule => ['authenticate-session-owner-or-admin'],
}

but you're not using puppet, so you'll probably want to use PlistBuddy or whatever text manipulation language you like (awk, perl, python, ruby, etc.):

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Set rights:system.login.screensaver:comment "(Use SecurityAgent.) The owner or any administrator can unlock the screensaver."' /etc/authorization

I have narrowed down the screen saver bug to ADmitMac version 6.0. Seems
they have issues with Kerberos authentication on 10.6.8 and 10.7.2 clients.

To get around this for 10.6.8 clients I have rolled back to a working
ADmitMac version 5.2

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