Allow administrators to turn airport on or off in Mac OS X v10.4.10

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Hello there,

The school district I work for has a lot of Mac OS X v10.4.10 laptop clients, connected to Airport Extreme base stations and third party access points (Proxim 4000) bound to Mac OS X Server v10.4.11 Open Directory Master.

Even though students and laptops are managed by MCX, students still have access to the Airport icon in the Menu Bar to “Turn Airport Off” or “Turn Airport On” option, which is a major headache as the network home folder connection is lost and students have to restart the computer to resume normal operation.

In Leopard there is a new feature in the System > Network > Airport, it is called “Require Administrator password to control Airport” which allows only administrators to turn airport on or off option, so students don’t intentionally “Turn Airport Off”.

What can be done in Tiger to achieve this capability?

In addition, I would very much appreciate if there is the some type of solution to the Battery Status icon from the Menu Bar, where students can change the Energy Saving settings.

Thank you,

Alim Pervizi

[apervizi]

Thanks for replying to my post.

Beside removing the Airport icon from the menu bar, is it possible to prompt for administrator privileges to turn the airport off when changed by a managed account?

There is no administrator privileges prompt when a managed user changes the battery settings from custom to lets say Better Energy Savings setting (this puts HD to sleep when possible).

Thanks

Alim

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True, you could disable the Energy Saver preferences pane with MCX as can be seen when you open System Preferences from a managed account, and I am managing it through MCX. But, you still can change the battery settings in the menu bar. I need the battery icon in the menu bar.
Same holds true for the Airport icon in the menu bar.

Thanks

Alim

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The Always policy is set in the Energy Saver preference pane for portable clients.

Managed accounts are still able to change the Battery optimization in the menu bar from Custom to let say Better Battery Life without administrator password.

Once, the Battery optimization is changed by one managed accounts it sticks for any other managed account that logs in, the same holds true even after a restart.

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Thanks

Alim

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Any solution to my problems?

Thanks

Alim Pervizi

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