cowwoc
19th April 2005 23:32 UTC

Detecting administrator rights?
Hi,

I want to be able to detect whether the user has admin rights or not. I want to install a public JRE on his machine and to my knowledge this requires admin access. If he does not have admin access, I will try installing a private JRE but this should be done as a last resort.

Ideas?

Gili

Instructor
20th April 2005 10:33 UTC

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/archive/...ances=0,11,927

Takhir
20th April 2005 13:15 UTC

Not admin user may have some permissions too. This is how I do this:

Function .onInit

; Hand made permissions checkout
  WriteRegStr HKLM "${REG_UNINST}" "TestString" "Some text"
  IfErrors 0 cleanValue
  MessageBox MB_OK "$(adminMsg)"
  Abort
cleanValue:
  DeleteRegValue HKLM "${REG_UNINST}" "TestString"
  DeleteRegKey /ifempty HKLM "${REG_UNINST}"

FunctionEnd