On 27 Aug 2008, at 23:01, Damien Gerard wrote:
Le Aug 26, 2008 à 3:49 PM, Paul a écrit :
i want to port one of my Delphi applications to Mac OS X.
Before I start (don't even have a Mac yet), I need to know if it's
possible at all.
It's a client side part of a remote admin program.
For this program, I need to control the system and get info about
the system like:
- check if user has admin rights
It is an UNIX env. So admin rights is nearly meaningless.
Indeed. Use Authorization Services to query the system about whether
you currently have the rights to perform a particular action, and if
you don't to request the user to authorise you to do so (e.g. by
entering the login and password of an administrator user).
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Security/Conceptual/authorization_concepts
Instead of reinventing the wheel you should use the Apple Remote
Desktop or a VNC client (I recommend you a SSH tunnel)
And he can of course also look at the source code of existing VNC
servers, e.g. http://sourceforge.net/projects/osxvnc/
But since it's such low level stuff, it's likely to require
modifications for different OS versions and using an existing (and
nowadays system-provided) protocol is indeed probably the best way to
go.
Jonas
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