How to unlock dock?

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  1. thesunlover, Aug 17, 2011
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    thesunlover macrumors newbie

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    Hi,

    I am an experienced Unix/Linux system admin, but quite new in the Apple world. I've just got this MacBook (Mac OS 10.6.8) from my company and have admin rights of this system.

    Issue: I can't remove icons from dock because it is locked. I've googled a lot but unfortunately haven't found the solution yet. I've tried Parental Controls, terminal commands, etc. but none of them working. Does Mac use user profiles to control what users can do? If yes, where can a find and modify user profiles?

    I'll try not to use any third party software for this 'simple' issue.

    Please help! Thanks a lot in advance!
     
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  2. wrldwzrd89, Aug 17, 2011

    wrldwzrd89 macrumors G5

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    There's a preference for the dock that makes it immutable. This can be disabled with a Terminal command.

    Original thread is here: http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=67085
     
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  3. thesunlover, Aug 17, 2011

    thesunlover thread starter macrumors newbie

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    Thank you for the answer, but these commands not working, nothing changed after running them:

    Code:
    $ defaults write com.apple.dock contents-immutable -bool false
$ osascript -e 'tell application "Dock" to quit'
     
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