Reading Users Plist with RubyCocoa

gistfile1.rb

require 'osx/cocoa'
require 'pp'
include OSX

users_plist_dir = '/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users'
resource_name = 'gary'
users_plist = OSX::NSMutableDictionary.dictionaryWithContentsOfFile("#{users_plist_dir}/#{resource_name}.plist")

pp users_plist
pp users_plist['ShadowHashData']
pp users_plist['ShadowHashData'].first


# Getting the embedded binary plist
embedded_bplist = NSPropertyListSerialization.objc_send(
  :propertyListFromData, users_plist['ShadowHashData'][0],
  :mutabilityOption, NSPropertyListMutableContainersAndLeaves,
  :format, nil,
   :errorDescription, nil)