Hi Bob, thanks for your hints. For windows standalones you can set the UAC Execution Level to "require Admin". So LC knows, who's logged in. I wonder, if we can retrieve this information from LC? Tiemo
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [email protected] [mailto:use-livecode- > [email protected]] Im Auftrag von Bob Sneidar > Gesendet: Freitag, 23. März 2012 18:01 > An: How to use LiveCode > Betreff: Re: How to get the user or his rights? > > Okay so ID -G in OS X returns a space delimited list of groups the user > belongs to. If 80 is in that list, then he is an admin. You can use the > form ID -p and the results will be human readable, but you can't just look > for admin because other groups may contain the string admin, like _lpadmin > for example. > > I am not going to dig into how to do this on Windows. > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > [email protected] > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
