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Re: User Access Rights


  • Subject: Re: User Access Rights
  • From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 15:02:56 -0400

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:33 PM, iseecolors <email@hidden> wrote:
> I am looking for how to determine if a given user is allowed to Administer
> the host computer or not.  I am guessing that there is something similar to
> CFPreferencesCopyValue or NSUserName that I can use to determine this
> information.

Don't try to head the user off at the pass.  If you need the user to
authenticate as an administrator, don't disable that functionality
simply because the user is not an administrator.  The authorization
interface allows authenticating as any administrator, not just the
currently logged-in user.

--Kyle Sluder
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