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: Stephane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:04:47 +0200
On Jun 24, 2008, at 12:42, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
There is no administration privileges from a Mac OS X point of view.
Each privileged task has its own rules defined in /etc/authorization
In the case I'm thinking about: Mac OS X point of view == "Allow user
to administer this computer" in System Preferences > Accounts >
Security. Which is the way (I hope) most users see it.
On Jun 24, 2008, at 16:59, email@hidden wrote:
Identity services might help:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Networking/Conceptual/
IdentityServices_ProgGuide/Introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html
Identity services has a serious flaw for me: it's Leopard only.
Maybe I should rephrase the question:
How do you check if "Allow user to administer this computer" is turned
on for a specific user account?
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