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On Apr 19 01:52, Charles Wilson wrote:
> 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).

I saw you did already.


Thanks,
Corinna

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