Allow Standard Users to enable time machine on Ventura/big sur

mquinonez
New Contributor

Hello we are currently testing a privilage management software and we have demoded some of our admins to standard users, we noticed that standard users can not start a time machine back up, we did a bit of search and located a few scripts with the following lines  but they dont seem to change anything 

security authorizationdb write system.preferences.timemachine allow
/usr/bin/security authorizationdb write system.preferences.timemachine allow

 we have used similar code  for print and wifi settings and they do seem to allow users to print and connect to wifi but enabling time machine still gives the MacOS pop up asking for credentials on ventura and sonoma. 

"system preferences is tyring to modify your systems settings" - "enter your password to allow this" 

we tried adding the 

/usr/bin/security authorizationdb write system.preferences.timemachine authenticate-session-owner-or-admin

to allow all users but still no luck. 

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PaulHazelden
Valued Contributor

I have 2 lines not one.

security authorizationdb write system.preferences allow

security authorizationdb write system.preferences.timemachine allow

It is run as a script from Jamf, so it will be run as root and not the user. It is kind of dumb, you are allowing all users not just one to complete the timeMachine stuff.