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    copied!<p>I'm trying to get a list of <strong>all</strong> users and all groups on Mac OS X 10.5+. How can I do this?</p> <p>For example, the list of all users on my machine should return: <code>_amavisd, _appowner, _appserver, _ard, _atsserver, _calendar, _carddav, _clamav, _coreaudiod, _cvmsroot, _cvs, _cyrus, _devdocs, _dovecot, _eppc, _installer, _jabber, _lda, _locationd, _lp, _mailman, _mcxalr, _mdnsresponder, _mysql, _pcastagent, _pcastserver, _postfix, _qtss, _sandbox, _screensaver, _securityagent, _serialnumberd, _softwareupdate, _spotlight, _sshd, _svn, _teamsserver, _timezone, _tokend, _trustevaluationagent, _unknown, _update_sharing, _usbmuxd, _uucp, _windowserver, _www, _xgridagent, _xgridcontroller, daemon, dave, nobody, root</code> (that was painstakingly compiled manually).</p> <p>How can I get that list (and the corresponding list of all groups) programmatically? I'm open to alternative (non-c based) solutions, such as Applescript, commandline, etc.</p> <hr> <p><strong>Update a long time later</strong></p> <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/1308064/115730">TALlama's answer</a> prompted me to investigate the API to Open Directory, and I found that this list can be easily acquired programmatically:</p> <pre><code>#import &lt;OpenDirectory/OpenDirectory.h&gt; ODSession *s = [ODSession defaultSession]; ODNode *root = [ODNode nodeWithSession:s name:@"/Local/Default" error:nil]; ODQuery *q = [ODQuery queryWithNode:root forRecordTypes:kODRecordTypeUsers attribute:nil matchType:0 queryValues:nil returnAttributes:nil maximumResults:0 error:nil]; NSArray *results = [q resultsAllowingPartial:NO error:nil]; for (ODRecord *r in results) { NSLog(@"%@", [r recordName]); } </code></pre> <p>That will log the usernames of every user on the system. Substituting in <code>kODRecordTypeGroups</code> will get you the list of all the groups.</p> <p>The <code>-[ODQuery resultsAllowingPartial:error:]</code> method is a <em>blocking</em> call, so you'd either want to execute this code on a background thread, or use an <code>&lt;ODQueryDelegate&gt;</code> to aggregate the results.</p>
 

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