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Unlocking Printer Preferences

  • March 14, 2019
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• We have a user who had their printing preferences unlocked with these commands:

/usr/bin/security authorizationdb read system.preferences.printing > /tmp/system.preferences.printing.plist
/usr/bin/defaults write /tmp/system.preferences.printing.plist group everyone
/usr/bin/security authorizationdb write system.preferences.printing < /tmp/system.preferences.printing.plist

• The site that provided the information said this command would also be needed but it comes back with an error

/usr/sbin/dseditgroup -o edit -n /Local/Default -a “everyone” -t group lpadmin

• When the user attempts to view the printer preferences; they’re met with this error. •

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    • sshort
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    • March 14, 2019

    That command might need sudo if run by the user and/or an admin needs to add this user to the "Print Administrators" group that's called out in the pop-up warning

    Chris_Hafner
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    • Chris_Hafner
    • Jamf Heroes
    • March 20, 2019

    That's an interesting way to do it. We're a little simpler here. Our firstRun script contains the following commands and are run as root.

    /usr/sbin/dseditgroup -o edit -n /Local/Default -a everyone -t group lpadmin
    /usr/sbin/security authorizationdb write system.preferences allow
    /usr/sbin/security authorizationdb write system.preferences.printing allow
    /usr/sbin/security authorizationdb write system.print.operator allow

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