Re: Administrator password
Re: Administrator password
- Subject: Re: Administrator password
- From: Dan Shoop <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:50:10 -0500
At 12:08 AM -0500 11/14/06, Jerry Krinock wrote:
But the first part, getting a list of system admins, has me stumped. I can
can see what I want by launching NetInfo Manager. A window named
"local@localhost" opens and shows me a database browser. If I browse to
groups > admin > users, I see exactly what I want: A list of all the admin
users on my Mac!!
Well maybe.
You're just looking at *one* datastore that Open Directory might be
using. There can be admin users also stored in flat files, LDAP, NIS,
AD, ...
You'd not know the approproiate stores to check and some might have
users in them that aren't actually active stores as well, so this
isn't the right approach.
Instead use one of the get group functions in your code to get the
membership of what's actively used. But this may have some problems
too.
But how can I get this list on the command line?
For NetInfo, use the ni* tools
Hint: NetInfo Manager is
probably a GUI for some command-line program or it reads a database file,
right?
No. It does it's own stuff directly, it's not a wrapper for a command
line tool. .
Maybe something to do with netinfod
Well that's the demon.
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-dhan
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