Re: getting the full user name
Re: getting the full user name
- Subject: Re: getting the full user name
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 11:05:45 +0200
On 29 okt 2005, at 04.09, Herbert wrote:
I need to build a list of users. Getting the short name is easy,
you can get the directory list from the Users directory.
Aouch... Not a nice way to do it! And besides, there is nothing
stopping an admin from placing user home directories somewhere else.
At work we have NFS mounted home directories for example, they're not
found at /Users. At home I have separate system and user partitions,
and I don't keep my user directories at /Users.
I'd like to show the full names in the list. I found some source
for niutil that I guess will work, but I was wondering if there is
a Cocoa way to do it.
I see a method for getting the full name of the current user, but
not of anyone else.
Have I missed something?
You should use the DirectoryService.framework. There is a chapter in
Dalrymple & Hillegass "Core Mac OS X and UNIX Programming" on that
topic if you need some pointers. Or look for documentation and sample
code snippets from Apple and by way of Google.
j o a r
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