Disable Wi-Fi on Mac OS X Lion

[therealboona]

Hi,

I am fairly new to Mac's and I work within an IT department. I am looking to ensure that our Mac's are as secure as possible and that threats from external users are minimised.

Does anyone know a way to disable Wi-Fi within Lion, so that users (that will have local admin rights) can not turn it back on?

Thanks.

 

[btbrossard]

The easiest way would be to not have the users have admin rights to the system.

Then disable wi-fi in the settings and lock the pref pane with the padlock.

 

[brijazz]

The easiest way would be to not have the users have admin rights to the system. Then disable wi-fi in the settings and lock the pref pane with the padlock.

+1. If your goal is security, why would you give every user access to the <b>entire</b> system by granting admin rights?

Also, the correct way to prevent a non-admin user from turning Wi-Fi on/off is to do the following:

1) Open System Preferences->Network
2) select Wi-Fi->Advanced
3) check the three boxes underneath "Required administrator authorization to..."