I’ve just installed Mac OS X Server (version: 4.1 (14S1092) on Mac OS X: 10.10.3 (14D136)). Whenever I try to shut it down (as a local interactive user), I keep seeing a prompt that requires me to enter an admin’s name and password before proceeding with the shutdown:
I've used Mac OS X Server's serveradmin command line interface for Server Admin.app & now Server.app for starting & stopping services, viewing status & settings, and occasionally running what few commands I can find documented on random blogs. Simplify server administration with streamlined server management tools. Configure and troubleshoot your servers and manage Windows Server workloads remotely from a web browser. Use it to manage any version, from 2008 R2 to 2019.
Shutting down may cause other users logged into this computer to lose unsaved changes.
I keep seeing this dialog even though there is nobody else connected to the machine.
Question is, how can I disable this dialog? I mean, let anybody who is logged in locally (as in using the monitor and keyboard attached physically to the system) to shutdown the machine without entering an administrator password (or even without entering their own password?) I see this is not a security issue since with physical access, they can just press the power button.
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My user has full administrative rights, so theoretically I can just enter my username and password there, but this is not the core of the problem.