Any way to find the user privilages

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cybereka
13th March 2003 11:23 UTC

Any way to find the user privilages
Hai all,
Is there any way to find the user has got the administrator privilege. And only if he got that the installation should continue otherwise i need to abort the installation by just giving his the reson. Is there any way to do this? Thanks a lot.

Mosestycoon
13th March 2003 12:12 UTC

DLL in the plugin-folder
Check out your plugin-folder of your version, there is a userinfo.dll and somewher there is an example script within the package of latest NSIS

MO

---- [U P D A T E] ----

The script is in the folder:
Path\to\NSIS\Contrib\UserInfo

;)

Cheers

bene42
2nd April 2003 13:33 UTC

Re: DLL in the plugin-folder
Hi,

Originally posted by Mosestycoon
Check out your plugin-folder of your version, there is a userinfo.dll and somewher there is an example script within the package of latest NSIS

this DLL works fine, exept on Win9x with Novell-Client. The User has the right to install everything (no admin), but the script returns a username and a Usergroup depends on Novell. Maybe there is a way to change this behavior.

Bene

Joost Verburg
2nd April 2003 14:05 UTC

Win9x is no multi-user platform. Everyone has the right to install software.

bene42
2nd April 2003 14:24 UTC

Originally posted by Joost Verburg
Win9x is no multi-user platform. Everyone has the right to install software.

But with Novel-Client UserInfo returns a Username and a Usergroup:
The example ends up here:
StrCmp $1 "User" 0 +3
MessageBox MB_OK 'User "$0" is just a regular user'
and NOT here:
Win9x:
# This one means you don't need to care about admin or
# not admin because Windows 9x doesn't either
MessageBox MB_OK "Error! This DLL can't run under Windows 9x!"

Bene

Joost Verburg
2nd April 2003 15:05 UTC

You can add a registry check for Win9x.

kichik
2nd April 2003 15:18 UTC

Are you saying Novel installs advapi32.dll?

bene42
3rd April 2003 09:48 UTC

Originally posted by kichik
Are you saying Novel installs advapi32.dll?

Yes, I think so. advapi32.dll exist on the system.

Originally posted by Joost Verburg
You can add a registry check for Win9x.

uname -a? :D
Windows is not my best known OS :)

Bene

kichik
3rd April 2003 12:28 UTC

The latest version in CVS now always returns Admin if it's on Windows 9x and the DLL actually loads. Can anyone please test if the DLL loads on Windows 95? If it doesn't load you'll get a message saying the DLL is not built for Windows 9x (using the Contrib\UserInfo\UserInfo.nsi example).