ralfoide
23rd July 2002 00:44 UTC

IsAdmin DLL
Hi!

IsAdmin is a DLL for NSIS that determines if the current (impersonated) user has administrator priviledges. Returns 1 to NSIS if it does, 0 or a GetLastErorr number to the caller if not.

Reference: Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - Q118626

Hope this be helpful.
Source code and DSW project in the archive. If you need a compiled DLL, please ask. Free of use, blah blah. That's the kind of DLL I'd like to see in the Contribs of NISI :)

Tested with 1.95... oops need to update now :-)

R/

Sunjammer
23rd July 2002 08:56 UTC

I'll admit that my IsAdministrator function is buried inside the services control dll I wrote a while back but I just thought I'd post to say that this functionality does exist (yours is still needed though) so don't fret about stuff not being covered, you can usually find a solution somewhere :D

(FYI http://www.clantpa.co.uk/nsis/x18servicesV0.0.zip was what I was referring to and is mentioned in this forum if you search back)

[edit]I've hosted your file on my archive and added an entry on the downloads page, I'll add a proper page for it soon (it's on the pending list)[/edit]

ralfoide
23rd July 2002 09:28 UTC

Interesting. I had a look at the winamp.com and your archives and I completly missed that x18services DLL :confused: -- I'm rather new to NSIS and there's a lot of material around. :)

Anyway, I may need that functionnality later, so it's good to know where to find it. :D

Thanks for the hosting.

R/

Sunjammer
23rd July 2002 10:39 UTC

Yeah sorry about that - the comments on the services DLL mostly focused on the services side, the IsAdministrator function was in there because to manipulate services you generally need to be an administrator so it seemed relevant.

You won't find anything on my archive site if you search for administrator because I haven't had time to document my own DLLs that are hosted there, I've prioritised other people's stuff over my own so my services dll literally only gets a link on the download page at the moment.

Joost Verburg
23rd July 2002 15:42 UTC

Would it also be possible to check other privileges of the user?

* Administrator
* Power User
* Restricted User