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wfc_am_i_administrator

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Declaration

BOOL wfc_am_i_administrator( void )

Description

This function returns TRUE if your program is running with Administrator priveleges, FALSE if you don't have Administrator proveleges. It uses the method described in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q118626.

Example

#include <wfc.h>
#pragma hdrstop

int _tmain( int number_of_command_line_arguments, LPCTSTR command_line_arguments[] )
{
   WFCTRACEINIT( TEXT( "_tmain()" ) );

   if ( wfc_am_i_administrator() != FALSE )
   {
      _tprintf( TEXT( "You are Administrator or in the Administrators group\n" ) );
   }
   else
   {
      _tprintf( TEXT( "You are nothing, a nobody!\n" ) );
   }

   return( EXIT_SUCCESS );
}

API's Used

wfc_am_i_administrator() uses the following API's:

• AllocateAndInitializeSid
• EqualSid
• FreeSid
• GetCurrentProcess
• GetCurrentThread
• GetLastError
• GetTokenInformation
• OpenProcessToken
• OpenThreadToken

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Copyright, 2000, Samuel R. Blackburn
$Workfile: wfc_am_i_administrator.cpp $
$Modtime: 1/17/00 9:31a $