Prerequisites / Minimum Requirements
- JAMF Connect has been installed
- The logged on account is a Faculty or Staff
- Students will not be given admin rights even temporarily
- Most Creighton Faculty & Staff should not have full admin rights
- Follow this process for twenty minutes of temporary admin rights
End State / Outcome
- The logged on user is able to promote themselves to admin
How to Steps
Full Admin Rights
- If a person has full admin rights, JAMF Connect will show greyed out User Privileges with the Admin account listed
- In this case, there should not be a need for further actions
How to request temporary admin rights
- Click the Plus Icon
- User Privileges will show Standard User and the netid
- Click Request Admin Privileges
- The plus icon will show a timer counting down from 20 minutes
- A notification will also say “You are now a local administrator.”
- The user privileges screen will reflect the admin account
- System Preferences/Users & Groups will show admin next to the account name
- After 20 minutes admin rights will revert back to standard
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