Frequently Asked Questions
This is by design. The icon is green and displays a locked padlock when you are a standard user. It looks like this:
The icon is orange and displays an unlocked padlock icon when you are an administrator. It looks like this:
Yes. By default, administrator privileges are granted for 20 minutes (if not configured otherwise). However, if necessary, you can configure Privileges not to remove administrator privileges by setting the expiration interval to “Never” in the app's settings.
Privileges uses the system log for logging. To see all logs for Privileges in the Console app, you can filter
for the Privileges process.
To see only the logging associated with changing admin rights in the Console app, you can filter for log messages
containing SAPCorp.
To access the same logs from the command line, the log command can be used. To see all logs for Privileges using the log command, the following command can be used:
log show --style syslog --predicate 'process BEGINSWITH "Privileges"'
To see only the logging associated with changing admin rights, the following command can be used:
log show --style syslog --predicate 'process == "PrivilegesDaemon" && eventMessage BEGINSWITH
"SAPCorp: U"'
In this illustration you can get an overview of how the different app components communicate with each other:
