Unlocking Preference Panes For Non-Admin Users On 10.6 & 10.7

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UPDATE: A tool called authbuddy has just come to my attention that will managed this better & for 10.7+.

Way back in November 2010 I posted a script that would unlock each secure system preference pane for non-admins, (this can be found here).

With Lion came a more granular way to achieve the same, but rather then have a script for 10.6 & another for 10.7 i’ve amalgamated them with an OS check in the script.

So if the below script runs on 10.6.x it will untick the option System Preferences > Security > “Require Password To Unlock Each Secure Preference” & allow all users to unlock the below preference panes. If the OS is 10.7.x the below are allowed on a per pane level.

  • Energy Saver
  • Network
  • Sharing
  • Date & Time
  • Startup Disk
  • Time Machine

(Thanks to John for the Date & Time 10.7 line).