network time machine backups of standard users

[kyoung]

Our middle school students are standard users on their laptops so they can't set up time machine on their machines. Anybody know how to get a standard user set up to use a network time machine volume?

[gskibum]

This fellow's script got me working with what you're trying to do.

[Chris_Hafner]

We include the following lines in our first boot script to accomplish this for our students.

security authorizationdb write system.preferences allow
security authorizationdb write system.preferences.timemachine allow

You could push this out to students as a policy after the fact as I'm sure you're in the middle of the school year ;-)

[paulvb]

Would you push this out as a script, or Files and Processes?

[paulvb]

Nevermind. Got it. And thank you for the script.