Raising admin rights on Vista

[runrev260805 at m-r-d.de]

Hi,

i do not know if this helps, but

net user <username> gives an overview of the user settings (including to which local group he/she belongs)

Regards,

Matthias

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Raising admin rights on Vista (01-Sep-2008 13:19)
From:    Eric Chatonet <eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com>
To:      runrev260805 at m-r-d.de

> Bonjour à tous,
> 
> When you update Rev on Vista, a dialog prompts you to quit and reopen  Rev 
> as 'Administrator' if you have not these rights.
> Of course it's because without admin rights, files written to Program  
> files will be virtualized.
> As to know if an exe has admin rights, I have written a tiny function:
> 
> function VistaAdmin
>    local tFolder,tVirtualizedFolder,tAdminFlag
>    ----
>    put specialfolderpath(38) & slash & "TempTestfolder" into tFolder
>    create folder tFolder
>    put char 1 of tFolder & ":/Users/" & $USERNAME & "/AppData/Local/ 
> VirtualStore/Program Files/TempTestfolder" into tVirtualizedFolder
>    put there is no folder tVirtualizedFolder into tAdminFlag
>    if tAdminFlag then delete folder tFolder
>    else delete folder tVirtualizedFolder
>    return tAdminFlag
> end VistaAdmin
> 
> Forgive me because it's really a workaround but I could not figure  
> another way to get it :-(
> Now my questions:
> 
> 1. Do you know a more elegant way (without writing to disk) to know  
> if the user has admin rights?
> 2. Is there a way to raise privileges directly using a shell command  
> or something else on Vista? *
> Because this way of doing (as does any installer) would be by far  
> preferable...
> 
> * I'm afraid not or Rev would have used it in their own installer?
> 
> Thanks for any idea on or off-list.
> 
> Best regards from Paris,
> Eric Chatonet.
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