<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">On 12/08/2003 20:51:49 metacard-admin wrote:<br>
>Has anyone come up with a way to determine the user privileges of the<br>
>current user without writing a file to the drive?<br>
><br>
>I'm trying to detect whether or not the current Windows user has Admin<br>
>rights. If the only way to determine this is to attempt to create a file,<br>
>what is the best path to use?<br>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Scott,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">on NT4 or W2K only... (it would be nice if someone posted the osx and linux variants ;)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">echo %username%</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">will give you the current user name.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Then, put the result in comparison with </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">c:\net localgroup </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Choose the administrator group</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">net localgroup "administrators"</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">you should see your user name in there.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Alternatives:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">In a NT domain, the local admin may be useless!</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">You can find the admins in net group "domain admins" -- but only from the PDC...</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Unless you have EnterpriseAdmin (obsolete I believe) -- more below...</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">So one simple solution to find out if you are an administrator is this:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">c:\>net sessions</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">System error 5 has occurred.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Access is denied.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">or</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">c:\>net sessions</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Computer User name Client Type Opens Idle time</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">\\BELLINI Windows NT 1381 0 00:07:10</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The command completed successfully.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">For enterprise admin</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">global </font><font size=2>EAAvailable </font>
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<br><font size=2> put shell("EA") into x</font>
<br><font size=2> put "The name specified is not recognized" is not in x into EAAvailable</font>
<br><font size=2> if not EAAvailable then answer "EA - Enterprise Administrator is required for this program to work. Maybe EA's path is not in your system's PATH environment variable."</font>
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<br><font size=2>on CheckUserIsAdmin</font>
<br><font size=2>if EAAvailable then</font>
<br><font size=2> local eainfo</font>
<br><font size=2> local marshalindomain,deputyindomain</font>
<br><font size=2> put shell("ea info") into eainfo</font>
<br><font size=2> -- parse this</font>
<br><font size=2> -- Marshal in Focus Domain? Yes, Marshal with all Deputy powers</font>
<br><font size=2> -- Deputy in Focus Domain? Yes</font>
<br><font size=2> </font>
<br><font size=2> put line lineoffset("Marshal in Focus Domain",eainfo) of eainfo into marshalindomain</font>
<br><font size=2> put line lineoffset("Deputy in Focus Domain",eainfo) of eainfo into deputyindomain</font>
<br><font size=2> </font>
<br><font size=2> get "yes" is in marshalindomain and "yes" is in deputyindomain</font>
<br><font size=2>else</font>
<br><font size=2> get "access denied" is not in shell("net sessions")</font>
<br><font size=2>end if</font>
<br><font size=2> return it</font>
<br><font size=2>end CheckUserIsAdmin</font>
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