MacOS – Change Security & Privacy setting from terminal

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I need to enable the "Require an administrator password to access locked preferences" on about a dozen Macs. I would like to do it from ARD as a unix command. Is this possible?

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Using AppleScript :

tell application "System Events"
    tell security preferences
    set properties to {require password to unlock:true}
    end tell
end tell

You can call the Applescript code using the osascript command.

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AppleScript is a nice way to go !

tell application "System Preferences"
    reveal pane "com.apple.preference.mouse"
end tell
tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
    tell checkbox 1 of window 1
        click
    end tell
end tell

It works on Mavericks. It might need some modifications on older OS X because the UI of the mouse preferences changed.

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