Objective C and OS user type - objective-c

Question

Is there any way to get currently logged in user type (root, admin or normal) through objective C?
I know about NSFullUserName() which gives user name, but how to retrieve user type?
Thanks.

Answer 1

You can retrieve the user group using getpwnam or getpwuid then use getgrgid to get the group name from the gid.
These are C functions in the standard library.
-- EDIT: Here is a short, poorly coded C example ---
Here is a small example, on mac os in the terminal it should build using make (if you name the file getpwnam_example.c you can do $ make getpwnam_example in the same directory as the c file).
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <strings.h>
#include <pwd.h>
#include <grp.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
uid_t current_user_id = getuid();
printf("My Current UID is %d\n", current_user_id);
struct passwd *pwentry = getpwuid(current_user_id);
printf("My Current Name is %s\n", pwentry->pw_gecos);
printf("My Current Group ID is %d\n", pwentry->pw_gid);
struct group *grentry = getgrgid(getgid());
printf("My Current Group Name is %s\n", grentry->gr_name);
printf("Am I an admin? ");
struct group *admin_group = getgrnam("admin");
while(*admin_group->gr_mem != NULL) {
if (strcmp(pwentry->pw_name, *admin_group->gr_mem) == 0) {
printf("yes!\n");
}
admin_group->gr_mem++;
}
return 0;
}