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

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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

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

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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

rmanly
Contributor III

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