On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Marcos Douglas <m...@delfire.net> wrote:
>> I also had to make sure the code was
>> being ran as an administrator.
>
> That's nice. Can you share the function?

Again, don't remember where I found this, Google or MSDN probably.
Only tested in Delphi.

function IsAdmin: Boolean;
{ -------------------------------------------------------------
  Returns a boolean indicating whether or not user has admin
  privileges. (Call only when running under NT.)

  ------------------------------------------------------------- }
var
  hAccessToken       : tHandle;
  ptgGroups          : pTokenGroups;
  dwInfoBufferSize   : DWORD;
  psidAdministrators : PSID;
  int                : integer;            // counter
  blnResult          : boolean;            // return flag

const
 SECURITY_NT_AUTHORITY: SID_IDENTIFIER_AUTHORITY = (Value:
(0,0,0,0,0,5)); // ntifs
 SECURITY_BUILTIN_DOMAIN_RID: DWORD = $00000020;
 DOMAIN_ALIAS_RID_ADMINS: DWORD = $00000220;
 DOMAIN_ALIAS_RID_USERS : DWORD = $00000221;
 DOMAIN_ALIAS_RID_GUESTS: DWORD = $00000222;
 DOMAIN_ALIAS_RID_POWER_: DWORD = $00000223;

begin
 Result := False;
 ptgGroups := nil;
 blnResult := OpenThreadToken( GetCurrentThread, TOKEN_QUERY, True,
                               hAccessToken );
 if ( not blnResult ) then
  begin
   if GetLastError = ERROR_NO_TOKEN then
    blnResult := OpenProcessToken( GetCurrentProcess, TOKEN_QUERY,
                                   hAccessToken );
  end;
 if ( blnResult ) then
  try
   GetMem(ptgGroups, 1024);
   blnResult := GetTokenInformation( hAccessToken, TokenGroups, ptgGroups, 1024,
                                     dwInfoBufferSize );
   CloseHandle( hAccessToken );
   if ( blnResult ) then
    begin
     AllocateAndInitializeSid( SECURITY_NT_AUTHORITY, 2,
                               SECURITY_BUILTIN_DOMAIN_RID,
                               DOMAIN_ALIAS_RID_ADMINS,
                               0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
                               psidAdministrators );
     {$R-}
     for int := 0 to ptgGroups.GroupCount - 1 do
      if EqualSid( psidAdministrators, ptgGroups.Groups[ int ].Sid ) then
       begin
        Result := True;
        Break;
       end;
     {$R+}
     FreeSid( psidAdministrators );
    end;
  finally
   FreeMem( ptgGroups );
  end;
end;
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