On 15 May 2009, at 20:15, iseecolors wrote:
Actually the only reason I want to know is that tech support wants
to know when a user calls in.
I just want to place some text in the UI, so that indicates whether
the user has admin rights or not.
Rich
Try the Identity Services Programming Guide.
also see
http://www.cimgf.com/2008/04/09/cocoa-tutorial-introduction-to-identity-services/
I use the following code, though it may not be exactly what you require:
if ([[MGSUser currentUser] isMemberOfAdminGroup]) {
...
}
//
// MGSUser.h
//
// Created by Jonathan on 31/05/2008.
// Copyright 2008 Mugginsoft. All rights reserved.
//
#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
#import <Collaboration/Collaboration.h>
@interface MGSUser : NSObject {
CBIdentity *_user;
}
+ (id)currentUser;
- (id)initWithName:(NSString *)name;
- (BOOL)isMemberOfAdminGroup;
@end
//
// MGSUser.m
//
// Created by Jonathan on 31/05/2008.
// Copyright 2008 Mugginsoft. All rights reserved.
//
#import "MGSUser.h"
static MGSUser *_currentUser = nil;
@implementation MGSUser
/*
current user
*/
+ (id)currentUser
{
if (!_currentUser) {
_currentUser = [[self alloc] initWithName: NSFullUserName()];
}
return _currentUser;
}
/*
init with user name
*/
- (id)initWithName:(NSString *)name
{
if ([super init]) {
CBIdentityAuthority *authority = [CBIdentityAuthority
defaultIdentityAuthority]; // default is local and network
_user =[CBIdentity identityWithName:name authority:authority]; //
searches for full and logon names
}
return self;
}
/*
user is member of admin group
*/
- (BOOL)isMemberOfAdminGroup
{
CBIdentityAuthority *authority =[CBIdentityAuthority
defaultIdentityAuthority]; // default is local and network
// admin is 80, user is 20.
// to see user group membership type 'id' at terminal
// for list of groups type 'more /etc/group'
return [_user isMemberOfGroup:[CBGroupIdentity
groupIdentityWithPosixGID:80 authority:authority]];
}
@end
On May 15, 2009, at 12:02 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:33 PM, iseecolors
<iseecol...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
I am looking for how to determine if a given user is allowed to
Administer
the host computer or not. I am guessing that there is something
similar to
CFPreferencesCopyValue or NSUserName that I can use to determine
this
information.
Don't try to head the user off at the pass. If you need the user to
authenticate as an administrator, don't disable that functionality
simply because the user is not an administrator. The authorization
interface allows authenticating as any administrator, not just the
currently logged-in user.
--Kyle Sluder
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