MacOS support for Privilege Manager

I dont know if this helps much - however, while they look into that, i use this in JAMF to help elevate temporary admin rights - i used to manage all of our MAC fleet in intune so i know this script would need to change a bit for that, but hopefully this will help.

In JAMF there is a section for integer specifications, but should work if you just change $4 to something like 1800 for 30 minutes - give it a test (highlighted in yellow)

Note : this originally came from rocketman.tech before his site changed

#!/bin/bash

###############################################

# This script will provide temporary admin #

# rights to a standard user right from self #

# service. First it will grab the username of #

# the logged in user, elevate them to admin #

# and then create a launch daemon that will #

# count down from 30 minutes and then create #

# and run a secondary script that will demote #

# the user back to a standard account. The #

# launch daemon will continue to count down #

# no matter how often the user logs out or #

# restarts their computer. #

###############################################

#############################################

# find the logged in user and let them know #

#############################################

currentUser=$(who | awk '/console/{print $1}')

echo $currentUser

# osascript -e 'display dialog "You now have administrative rights for 30 minutes. DO NOT ABUSE THIS PRIVILEGE..." buttons {"Make me an admin, please"} default button 1'

#########################################################

# write a daemon that will let you remove the privilege #

# with another script and chmod/chown to make #

# sure it'll run, then load the daemon #

#########################################################

#Create the plist

sudo defaults write /Library/LaunchDaemons/removeAdmin.plist Label -string "removeAdmin"

#Add program argument to have it run the update script

sudo defaults write /Library/LaunchDaemons/removeAdmin.plist ProgramArguments -array -string /bin/sh -string "/Library/Application Support/JAMF/removeAdminRights.sh"

sudo defaults write /Library/LaunchDaemons/removeAdmin.plist StartInterval -integer $4

#Set run at load

sudo defaults write /Library/LaunchDaemons/removeAdmin.plist RunAtLoad -boolean yes

#Set ownership

sudo chown root:wheel /Library/LaunchDaemons/removeAdmin.plist

sudo chmod 644 /Library/LaunchDaemons/removeAdmin.plist

#Load the daemon

launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/removeAdmin.plist

sleep 10

#########################

# make file for removal #

#########################

if [ ! -d /private/var/userToRemove ]; then

mkdir /private/var/userToRemove

echo $currentUser >> /private/var/userToRemove/user

else

echo $currentUser >> /private/var/userToRemove/user

fi

##################################

# give the user admin privileges #

##################################

/usr/sbin/dseditgroup -o edit -a $currentUser -t user admin

########################################

# write a script for the launch daemon #

# to run to demote the user back and #

# then pull logs of what the user did. #

########################################

cat << 'EOF' > /Library/Application\ Support/JAMF/removeAdminRights.sh

if [[ -f /private/var/userToRemove/user ]]; then

userToRemove=$(cat /private/var/userToRemove/user)

echo "Removing $userToRemove's admin privileges"

/usr/sbin/dseditgroup -o edit -d $userToRemove -t user admin

rm -f /private/var/userToRemove/user

launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/removeAdmin.plist

rm /Library/LaunchDaemons/removeAdmin.plist

log collect --last 30m --output /private/var/userToRemove/$userToRemove.logarchive

fi

EOF

exit 0

Agreed that elevated permission management in macOS is difficult and Privilege Manager could help that. We will monitor the need for this feature and if more votes coming in then we can start to plan adding to product roadmap.