Security/Preference panes and /etc/authorization

[LuKreme]

On 31-Mar-2008, at 11:38, Phillip Burk wrote:
> I am just beginning my 10.5 rollout where I work and I have found an  
> oddity that I did not expect.  In the Security pane of System  
> Preferences the "Require password to unlock each System Preferences  
> pane" is unchecked yet all regular users (not admin) have all of the  
> preference panes locked that have a lock.

Er.. yes.  Non-admin users ALWAYS have certain prefs locked.  That's  
part of being non-admin.  The preference you are looking at is for  
ADMIN users.

> I believe I can kludge my way through this by altering the /etc/ 
> authorization file.

Why would you want to allow non-admin users to, for example, access  
the account pane?

>

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