I had an issue where a user wished to change DVD region on their mac. Not being an Admin they were not able to change it themselves from what was initially set.

I use the script from the Casper Resource kit titled “unlockRegionCodeSetting.sh” as part of my First run script. This sets the DVD region to the region of the 1st entered DVD. So this didn’t resolve the issue of letting a non-admin change the DVD region code themselves.

The blog post here, explains the situation & what is required. The below script will merely perform what is mentioned in the bottom section of that post. Therefore allowing non-admins to change region code if they are prompted too.

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