Setting up multiple standard users with admin privileges on a Mac

Question

I am trying to set up iMacs, OS X 10.11, with Xcode software for standard users to use in a lab. The software uses administrative privileges to run the Developer Tools in the software. What is the best way to setup the standard user accounts to do this without granting admin privileges to these accounts?

Answer 1

There's a group called "_developer" that solves this cleanly.

sudo dscl . append /Groups/_developer GroupMembership <username>

Run that from an admin account, obviously.