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mcxdisksetup needs admin credentials to make changes

Hi all,


Since a week when this particular iMac starts up, clients logging in, after building up the desktop for this client, it receives a window stating "Type an administrator's name and password to allow MCXDiskSetup' to make changes".


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If the client cancel this window, he/she is able to work. It is just annoying and I like to know which settings should be changed in order to stop this window for appearing after login. Where should I look? Do I have to look in WGM, or should I open terminal? Any advice welcome.


Best regards,


Harry


NB. Running SL server (latest version), AFP, DHCP, DNS, OD, Web services, and iCal.

mac mini Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.7), Server

Posted on Jun 10, 2011 1:55 AM

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Oct 20, 2011 1:51 PM in response to kweg150

Not sure if you have fixed this problem or not but I was having the same problems and here is how I fixed it. Go to /System/Library/CoreServices/ManagedClient.app/Contents/Resources and look for MCXDiskSetup. You can either add a .old to the end of it or delete the file. I prefer to add the .old to the end because I dislike deleting system files. You will have to do this on all machines you are having problems with. I hope this helps.


Jeff

Feb 5, 2013 7:59 PM in response to kweg150

This was driving me mad for a few hours, then I found a Managed Client setting that fixed it.


Under MEDIA ACCESS in the OTHER MEDIA tab, the box for REQUIRE AUTHENTICATION was ticked against the INTERNAL DISKS


Once I removed this (in fact stopped managing it altogether) the annoying messages stopped.


Hope this helps someone else in future. Googling the message only gave me 4 results!! Getting support for Apple related enterprise level problems is extremely frustrating.

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