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Problems detecting if a macOS user is a local or domain account
As a software engineer working in the field of security, I needed to know if a user was that of the local machine, or a user authenticated by Active Directory.
The way in which accounts (users and groups) are identified by macOS(or Unix variants) differs from those under Windows
Windows associates a user account with a Security Identifier (SID), along with a user’s credentials; name and password.
In contrast, macOS is all about the uid (user id) and gid (group id), as is well known to those also familiar with Linux.