Oh - and also how to either (a) force bdist_wininst executables to request
elevation or (b) have the .msi generation be smarter wrt upgrading so
installation is reasonable on Vista. Does anyone here have bdist_msi
experience?
For a), it should work by adding a manifest like this
?xml
Hi,
Does anyone know if there's a way to programmatically check to see if a user
has windows administrator privilege? I need this to work in WinXP and
Vista.
Thanks in advance,
Patrick
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On Jan 14, 2008 8:55 PM, Patrick Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know if there's a way to programmatically check to see if a
user has windows administrator privilege? I need this to work in WinXP and
Vista.
Thanks in advance,
Patrick
import ctypes
print ctypes.windll.shell32.IsUserAnAdmin()
(Courtesy of Thomas Heller - from a posting back in 2006)
I have no idea if it will work on Vista. You will need to try it.
It kinda works on Vista. If you're running from an elevated console then it
will return 1, othervise (even
14, 2008 1:55 PM
To: python-win32@python.org
Subject: [python-win32] Check if user has windows administrator
privilege
Hi,
Does anyone know if there's a way to programmatically check to
see if a user has windows administrator privilege? I
Follow-up question.
Why does type-ahead in PythonWin not show more functions after ctypes.windll. ?
Is this because of late-binding???
Message: 3
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:29:39 +0200
From: Graeme Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [python-win32] Check if user has windows administrator
Follow-up question.
Why does type-ahead in PythonWin not show more functions after
ctypes.windll. ?
Is this because of late-binding???
pythonwin basically just does a dir() of the name and the class, with
special support for COM objects. See _AutoComplete() in
pywin/scintilla/view.py -
Hi!
force bdist_wininst executables to request elevation ?
Sorry, not a real answer, (rather information).
On Vista, install is detected by Vista, and run automatically with
elevation. In theory. Because, in practice, it's true, or it's false,
sometimes...
Perso, for my install softs, I
me
up.
Mark
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