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I'm trying to unlock some of the system preferences but the security authorizationdb write system.preferences does not seem to work any more ... However old scripts I unless for time settings etc ... are also no longer working so I guess something has changed?



This is what I am using



#!/bin/sh

security authorizationdb write system.preferences allow
security authorizationdb write system.preferences.network allow

exit 0

I will have to verify tomorrow if I was running this on an updated VM, but I had it working on Sierra earlier today.



Though I set most of those on a 12.0 AutoDMG image and then update so that may make a difference.


I think it may just be related to the .network attribute as i tried with printing & datetime and they seemed to work ok


Right a bit more digging around and i need to change another entry too for it to worl



security authorizationdb write system.services.systemconfiguration.network allow


and that now fixes on my 10.12 builds



I keep searching but am yet to find a definitive list of all the authorizationdb system.services