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Re: What's the official way to detect a user has administration privileges?
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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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