Managed priter script for 10.5.7 mobile accounts

[striderida1]

I was able to create a simple applescript that will detect the user that is logged on and add them to the lpadmin group in 10.5.7. After this script is ran the + and – icons in the printing preference menu will become available and users will then be able to add/delete printers from the local machine.

set whoAmi to do shell script (“whoami”)
set whoAmiFinal to result
do shell script (“dseditgroup -o edit -n /Local/Default -q -u ADMINNAME -a ” & whoAmiFinal & ” -t user lpadmin”) user name “ADMINNAME” password “PASSWORD” with administrator privileges

Hope this helps.

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