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Is User a member of administrators group
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 11:38 pm
by danielheth
is there a way to tell if the user running my program is an administrator or not? On windows i simply call IsUserAdmin_(), but looking for the linux equivalent...
Re: Is User a member of administrators group
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 9:25 am
by idle
Not sure but you could try to write a file to a directory that requires root access
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Procedure IsUserAdmin_()
Protected rand.l,file.s
rand = Random($FFFFFF)
file.s = MD5Fingerprint(@rand,4)
If CreateFile(0,"/etc/"+file)
CloseFile(0)
DeleteFile("/etc/"+file)
ProcedureReturn 1
EndIf
EndProcedure
Debug IsUserAdmin_()
Re: Is User a member of administrators group
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 9:40 am
by Vera
Hi,
this might be what you're looking for:
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Debug "group-id of current user: " +Str(getgid_())
Source:
Shows group-id of current user
Please see Oma's
http://www.chabba.de/LinuxAPI.html /Misc for more
@idle ~ I like solutions like yours
greets ~ Vera
Re: Is User a member of administrators group
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2014 2:41 pm
by Shardik
danielheth wrote:On windows i simply call IsUserAdmin_(), but looking for the linux equivalent...
The equivalent in Linux is getuid_() or geteuid_():
http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... 64&start=1
http://www.purebasic.fr/german/viewtopi ... 39&start=3