You can allow or prevent local administrators on the computer from changing User and Location inventory information in Jamf Pro with the jamf binary by using the Allow local administrators to use the jamf binary recon verb to change User and Location inventory information in Jamf Pro checkbox. This is a feature which first appeared in Jamf Pro 10.20.x, but may not be well known.

This setting is enabled by default and can be configured by navigating to Settings > Computer Management > Inventory Collection in Jamf Pro.

What this setting affects are the following options associated with the jamf binary’s recon verb:

Why disable this setting? If you have workflows which leverage the user and location information stored in Jamf Pro, being able to change this setting from a managed Mac using the jamf binary’s recon verb may have security implications. In particular, PKI certificate authorities set up in Jamf Pro may use the user and location information stored in Jamf Pro to issue certificates to managed Macs.

In the context of certificates used for authentication, being able to change the user and location stored in Jamf Pro from the managed Mac’s end may mean that an enduser with the ability to run the jamf binary’s recon verb may be able to get authentication certificates for someone other than themselves assigned to their Mac.

If you do not have any workflows that use the recon verb’s options specified above, my advice is that you disable this setting and remove the ability of managed Macs to change the user and location information stored in Jamf Pro using the jamf binary’s recon verb.