Comments on: How to check whether current user have administrator privilege?

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Detectando perfil de usuário administrador | NetWork Spot! — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:57:29 +0000

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By: Jijo.Raj

Jijo.Raj — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:25:53 +0000

Hi Axe,

Could you post the errors you got? So that i can troubleshoot.
Are you trying to build the code in a console project?

Best Regards,
Jijo.

By: axe

axe — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:44:49 +0000

I get compile errors, can you please post a full example complete with includes and in main() ? Thanks.

By: WindowsPistha

WindowsPistha — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:58:07 +0000

Hi maverick_wipro ,

> “IsUserAnAdmin() would fail in Windows Vista if UAC is switched on

By: Jijo.Raj

Jijo.Raj — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:49:48 +0000

thanks for the vista info, buddy. Keep sharing your knowledge!

By: maverick_wipro

maverick_wipro — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:44:38 +0000

IsUserAnAdmin() would fail in Windows Vista if UAC is switched on… u can find out if admin priv in by a write to \HKLM , copying to \system32,

By: Jijo.Raj

Jijo.Raj — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:33:27 +0000

That function is intentionally ignored. See the extract from MSDN “This function is a wrapper for CheckTokenMembership. It is recommended to call that function directly to determine Administrator group status rather than calling IsUserAnAdmin.”

But i forgot to add that info as a note. I think it will be useful. Thanks for pointing it out.

By: Naveen

Naveen — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:25:16 +0000

If you use the IsUserAnAdmin() function, you can achive the same result as above. Basically the IsUserAnAdmin() internally use SHTestTokenMembership() function and that function internally perform the same operation you mentioned in the above tip.