site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Am 24.06.2008 um 19:39 schrieb Stephane Sudre: Alex _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... How do you check if "Allow user to administer this computer" is turned on for a specific user account? It feels like you're trying to second-guess the OS here - would it be better to simply attempt whatever it is you want to do, and if that fails due to lack of privileges (assuming you can detect that) retry with more privileges? Not in this case. But really, you should say what you are trying to accomplish. You can check if the user is in the admin group, that _should_ be consistent with the "Allow user to administrate" setting This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com