Re: Newbie question: get list of users

FROM : zauhar
DATE : Sun Jan 26 23:26:11 2003

However, this is only going to look in /etc, correct? What if you are
using netinfo for authentication?

Type 'man netinfo' to see a harrowing list of C library calls to access
netinfo data.

If you need to access a netinfo database, you might be better off to use
nidump to get a text version of the database, and then create an
NSDictionary  based on the resulting text file.

Randy


On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 04:55 PM, Robert Tillyard wrote:

> This 'C' program will do it, just copy the bits you need.
>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <pwd.h>
>
> int main ()
> {
> struct passwd *p;
>
>    while ((p = getpwent ()))
>      printf ("id %d = '%s'\n", p->pw_uid, p->pw_name);
> }
>
> Regards, Rob.
>
> On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 09:18  pm, Frank Fenn wrote:
>

>> Hi developer,
>>
>> I'm relatively new to MacOS, especially Cocoa programming. I would
>> like to know, how to get a list of all users
>> defined to the system and whether they have administrator rights or
>> not.
>>
>> Scanning the mailing list archive and I've found that there are
>> different ways to do this. If I look in the Account
>> preferences I can set a user as Administrator, Accounts also doesn't
>> show all users compared to Netinfo or
>> /etc/passwd.
>>
>> Is there any code example to get a list of users defined in Accounts.
>> I only need users that have a directory in
>> /Users.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Regards
>> Frank Fenn - Bright Light Software

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