How to get the user or his rights?

Bob Sneidar bobs at twft.com
Fri Mar 23 12:52:40 EDT 2012


Going to have to shell it I am sure. I don't know the specifics, but I know there are shell commands for the Mac. I came across this in a forum by googling it:

ls -l /dev/console

I got:

crw-------  1 bobsneidar  staff    0,   0 Mar 14 09:43 /dev/console

There is also env. This will display environment variables. You want the line that starts with user=

What is odd here is that I am an admin, and this is showing that my primary group is staff, the unix equivalent of users. I will have to poke around some more. 

Bob


On Mar 23, 2012, at 12:41 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have some configuration in my program which I would like to show only to
> the admin and not to a standard user.
> 
> Is there a way to read the logged in user from the system or his permission
> level (win & mac)? I didn't find anything in the docs. Or is there another
> approach to differentiate between users?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tiemo
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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