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How to re-enable grayed-out "Require password to wake this computer from sleep or screen saver" option on Mac OS X?

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In System Preferences -> Security, the checkbox “Require password to wake this computer from sleep or screen saver” is grayed out: How can I re-enable the option so that I can turn it off? I imagine this is something my IT department has rolled out using Managed Client (perhaps with these workaroun…

Error Output

defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver 'Require Password' -int 0

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Unless you have admin rights to the box where you can change the managed settings, it doesn't matter what you put into your own preferences, the managed settings will override it (since that's apparently how they have it configured). Regardless, I d…

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