Local Admin Provides you with an easy way to make the currently logging in user a local admin on the computer.
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Local Admin Description

Provides you with an easy way to make the currently logging in user a local admin on the computer. The purpose of this package installer is to provide you with an easy way to make the currently logging in user a local admin on the computer. It checks to see if the user exists in Open Directory in a group named 'administration' (this must be the exact short name of the group in Open Directory - without quotes).If that user exists in that group, they are added to the local admin group on the machine they are logging into, in order to do anything that a local admin can do on the specific workstation.As soon as you take this user out of the group in Open Directory (and they log out of the machine), they will be removed from the local admin group on the workstation. This way, you can somewhat dynamically give users local admin access, if needed, without having to touch any of the machines.This also works with Mobile Accounts (PHD's) - so if you want to have a user login and have a mobile account created (via Workgroup Manager) - it will also make them a local administrator for their computer - without you needing to check the box in System Preferences that allows them to be an administrator of that computer. And again, if you need to take away that control, you can simply remove them out of the administration group in Open Directory, and once they logout and log back in, they will no longer be a local administrator. The first user created (UID 501) is exempt from this script.

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