C# administrator privilege - checking

c# .net privileges administrator rights
Hooch picture Hooch · May 10, 2011 · Viewed 28.6k times · Source

I know that there are some similar questions. But I want to check only ONE thing.

I only want to know if program is running as administrator. I want to check that because I want to edit some secured files. User don't have to be administrator. I only want to know if my application has rights to edit some secured files that are editable when running as Administrator.

Answer

atrljoe picture atrljoe · May 10, 2011

This will return a bool valid

using System.Security.Principal;

bool isElevated;
using (WindowsIdentity identity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent())
{
    WindowsPrincipal principal = new WindowsPrincipal(identity);
    isElevated = principal.IsInRole(WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator);
}

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