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what files are touched when modified a normal account to Administrator on System Prefs

  • December 2, 2011
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  • Anonymous

Dear all,

I would like to know which plist and other files I need to pack when I want to change an existing account from normal user to Administrator.
This is for a running Netboot image so using a command wont help since every time the machines are restarted will loose this.

Thanks

Carmelo Lopez Portilla
ITS EMBL Heidelberg

lopez at embl.de
+49 6221 3878444

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    • tlarkin
    • Honored Contributor
    • December 2, 2011

    The only thing that changes is group membership in the directory services database.

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    • Anonymous
    • December 2, 2011

    Hi Thomas,

    so that is what I did, modified the /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/groups/admin.plist and working.

    thanks a lot!!
    cheers
    Carmelo

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    • rmanly
    • Contributor
    • December 2, 2011

    It is probably "safer" to not modify the plist directly if this is what you
    mean by your message.

    Here is the way to add someone from a directory service to the admin group,
    for example.

    dseditgroup -o edit -n /Local/Default -u localadmin -p -a networkuser -t
    user admin

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4332

    Good luck,

    Ryan M. Manly
    Glenbrook High Schools

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