Re: What's the official way to detect a user has administration privileges?
Re: What's the official way to detect a user has administration privileges?
- Subject: Re: What's the official way to detect a user has administration privileges?
- From: Paul Nelson <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:36:27 -0500
- Thread-topic: What's the official way to detect a user has administration privileges?
There is also the dsmemberutil on Leopard.
> From: Nigel Kersten <email@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:20:25 -0700
> To: Stéphane <email@hidden>
> Cc: <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: What's the official way to detect a user has administration
> privileges?
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> On Jun 24, 2008, at 3:32 AM, Stéphane wrote:
>
>> What's the official way to detect a user has administration
>> privileges (from a Mac OS X point of view)?
>>
>> OpenDirectory (how?) or does the fact that the user belongs to group
>> admin is enough (with the exception of root)?
>
> if you do just want to check whether a user is a member of the local
> admin group (though as others have pointed out, this may not be what
> you want)
>
> $ dseditgroup -o checkmember -m adminuser -n . admin ; echo $?
> yes adminuser is a member of admin
> 0
>
>
> $ dseditgroup -o checkmember -m notadmin -n . admin ; echo $?
> no notadmin is NOT a member of admin
> 2
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> Nigel Kersten
> http://explanatorygap.net
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