How to add Network Users as Local Admin

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How to add Network Users as Local Admin

Hello All

I have been manually adding users to the local computer admin group so they can use their user id every time they are prompt for an Admin ID and PW. I also use the following terminal command when I know a users are going to be using a computer:

dseditgroup -o edit -n /Local/Default -u localadmin -p -a networkuser -t user admin

Does anyone know of an easier way to do this?

It would be so much easier to add a group so anyone in that group would have local admin rights of that computer.

Could you simply change the terminal command to this?

dseditgroup -o edit -n /Local/Default -u localadmin -p -a networkgroup -t user admin

I am going to test and see but I doubt it.

Thanks,

ebrind

MacMini Server-OTHER, OS X Server, 10.7.5

Posted on Mar 22, 2013 2:09 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 23, 2013 9:07 AM in response to ebrind

Workgroup Manager or Directory Utility. But I wonder why you're doing this at all… I use a standard user account myself and need to use the admin account credentials (which is another user account) very little outside of modifying software.

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ebrind Author

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Mar 23, 2013 11:20 AM in response to infinite vortex

3rd party software.... Users have to be local admin accounts or have an admin account User ID and PW. As many times Mac OS X prompts them for their password throughout the day they get confused on which one they need to use. Its just easier to give them local admin rights.

I looked in WM and could not find a setting for that?

Thanks,

ebrind

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Mar 23, 2013 6:45 PM in response to ebrind

The question is whether you need them to be an administrator on the server or the local system they're on. If it's the local system then you need to have them in the directory of the local system. The simplest thing to do is to have a "generic" local admin account that's on each system and that everyone knows. You can always tell if it's asking for the user's credentials because it's filled in. If not then it wants a local admin credential.

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ebrind Author

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Mar 23, 2013 7:07 PM in response to infinite vortex

It is the Local System... I am using a generic now and it is not working as planned and end users still get confused.

I will look in the directory on the local computers... Thanks!

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