+4Hi Forum,
Word is coming down from the top that our senior leadership team wants to revoke local admin rights on people's Macs/PCs this year. Our people are currently Admin/Managed/Mobile accounts.
As such, if admin access is revoked, what's the best process for users who wish to change their AD/domain password on their Mac if they can't unlock the System preferences pane?
Best answer by joshuasee
I can confirm that the change password button in User & Groups as well as Security doesn't require the pane be unlocked, and have had to show users this on a few occasions. If it isn't working for you for some reason, you should really figure out what that reason is, but you could also run a script via Self Service to let people change their passwords with the passwd command, then update the keychain to reflect that.
+7the other option is "Security & Privacy".
we use "Apple Enterprise Connect" total price about $4,500.00 "one time fee" but it was worth it in our enviroment.
+17I can confirm that the change password button in User & Groups as well as Security doesn't require the pane be unlocked, and have had to show users this on a few occasions. If it isn't working for you for some reason, you should really figure out what that reason is, but you could also run a script via Self Service to let people change their passwords with the passwd command, then update the keychain to reflect that.
+4Thanks team, if the "Change Password" button isn't grayed out, then we're probably good. Regarding Apple Enterprise Connect, is this available for sale directly? Is there a product page from Apple I can provide to our bean counters/senior leaders to budget for?
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