WiFi settings time based restriction

[jhathcock]

Hey all. 

Is there a way to lock access to the WiFi settings on a macbook only during certain time periods combined with when a non-admin user is logged in?  We're having issues with our students using their hot spots and want to lock the computers to the campus WiFi durring class times.

[A_Collins]

You can do with 2 launchagents and 2 scripts, just write a script to  turn off wifi and mechanism to check if user admin,  second launchagent/script to do opposite

script and launchagent examples below:

#!/bin/bash

if groups $(whoami) | grep -q "\badmin\b"; then
    echo "User is an admin."
else
    echo "User is NOT an admin. Turning off wifi"
    networksetup -setairportpower en0 off
fi

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>com.example.wifiscript</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
            <string>/path_to_your_script.sh</string>
        </array>
        <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
        <dict>
            <key>Hour</key>
            <integer>9</integer>
            <key>Minute</key>
            <integer>30</integer>
        </dict>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/> 
       <key>KeepAlive</key>
        <false/>
    </dict>
</plist>