Scope Make me a local admin

[KyleEricson]

I have a self service item to make domain users a local admin if they are not one. How can I scope this to only domain users that are not local admins on that Mac?

[mm2270]

You will probably need to create an Extension Attribute that captures the "admin" state of user accounts on the Mac. There are probably a dozen examples on here of how to do that, and specifically ones that only look at either local or domain accounts. I would search around for existing EA scripts to use for that.

[bentoms]

Have a nose at: https://macmule.com/2015/11/06/ad-users-losing-admin-rights-when-off-the-domain/

[jlopez007]

@kericson Can you share that self-service item?

[KyleEricson]

#!/bin/bash 
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# Check to make sure $3 is set properly by the JSS, if not, set the current username manually
# This is a workaround for D-005003 (resolved in 9.01)

if [ -z $3 ]; 
    then 
        currentUser=`stat -f '%Su' /dev/console` 
    else 
        currentUser=$3 
fi 

# Add the current user to the local admin group on the Mac

dseditgroup -o edit -a $currentUser -t user admin

if [ "$?" == "0" ];
    then
        echo "Successfully added $currentUser to admin group"
    else
        echo "ERROR: Unable to add $currentUser to admin group"
        exit 1
fi

exit 0

[jlopez007]

@kericson Thanks! Saves me the trouble of finding it or, worse, writing it myself :-)

[jamflund]

@kericson How to exclude within this script root account? Something like this?

if [ -z $3 ]; then currentUser=stat -f '%Su' /dev/console else currentUser=$3 fi

Add the current user to the local admin group on the Mac

do if [ "currentUser" != "root" ] && [ "$user" != "jadmin" ] then dseditgroup -o edit -a $currentUser -t user admin

if [ "$?" == "0" ]; then echo "Successfully added $currentUser to admin group" else echo "ERROR: Unable to add $currentUser to admin group" exit 1
fi

exit 0