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03-09-2007
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| | Detect admin privilege due to elevation? What API can I use to distinguish between having administrator privilege normally, versus having administrator privilege due to elevation (where a user is prompted to enter an admin account and password)? -- Regards, Frank |
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03-09-2007
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| | RE: Detect admin privilege due to elevation? None. There is no difference between the two. You could look to see if UAC is enabled and surmise from that. "Frank S" wrote: > What API can I use to distinguish between having administrator privilege normally, versus having > administrator privilege due to elevation (where a user is prompted to enter an admin account and > password)? > > -- > Regards, > > Frank > |
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03-09-2007
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| | Re: Detect admin privilege due to elevation? Frank S wrote: > What API can I use to distinguish between having administrator privilege > normally, versus having administrator privilege due to elevation (where a > user is prompted to enter an admin account and password)? You can use GetTokenElevation() with a TOKEN_INFORMATION_CLASS of TokenElevation or TokenElevationType to determine if and how a token is elevated. The Windows SDK does not seem to have these values documented, so you may have to look at winnt.h to see what can be returned for these. -- Larry Futrell |
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