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#594 UserInfo::GetAccountType and Vista UAC

Status: closed-fixed

Owner: Amir Szekely

Labels: Plugin (102)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2007-04-03

Created: 2007-03-20

Creator: Anonymous

Private: No

GetAccountType should use CheckTokenMembership on XP (win2k?) and higher instead of EqualSID to check group membership to handle restricted tokens correctly

Or maybe it should have one function to check membership and one to check "actual" membership for the current process

-Anders

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Amir Szekely - 2007-03-20

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http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/archive/2007/03/14/why-does-kb-118626-use-accesscheck-to-check-if-you-re-a-member-of-the-administrators-group.aspx

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Amir Szekely - 2007-04-03

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Fixed by your patch #1687456.

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Amir Szekely - 2007-04-03

labels: --> Plugin

assigned_to: nobody --> kichik

status: open --> closed-fixed
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