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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 18 04:32, Charles Wilson wrote: 
>> So, I'm still not checking that the uid specified is a member of the local 
>> Administrators group.

Now I am. See below.

> As for an account being Administrator, and apart from special accounts
> like SYSTEM or LOCAL_SERVICE...
> 
> What about just checking the value of PUSER_INFO_3->usri3_priv?  It may
> contain the value USER_PRIV_ADMIN.  That should be sufficient, afaics.

That works, even on Vista. I've uploaded a new login-1.9-8 as a test 
release. Please take a look (I'll make a more formal 'avail for test' 
announcement later).

--
Chuck

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