That information is a bit outdated now. Use the OpenKeyReadOnly method to avoid the issue when the user doesn't have admin priviledges.
For the OP you need to use OpenProcessToken and GetTokenInformation and compare the Sid with the administrator Sid which you get from calling AllocateAndInitializeSid. OpenProcessToken ms-help://borland.bds4/security/security/openprocesstoken.htm Check out the See Also section as you should really use OpenThreadToken and if that fails use OpenProcessToken. AllocateAndInitializeSid ms-help://borland.bds4/security/security/allocateandinitializesid.htm If you do a search on these keywords you might find a function already prepared for you. HTH, Jeremy On 5/8/06, Paul McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This may help... This is a link I save ages ago (in case I need to do something similar) http://www.delphi32.com/info_facts/faq/faq_349.asp When using the TRegistry component under NT, a user with less than "administrator" rights is unable to access information stored in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. How can I work around this? The problem is caused by the fact that TRegistry (and the derived TRegInifile) always opens a key with KEY_ALL_ACCESS, even if only KEY_READ would be needed. You can avoid this by going back to using the API registry functions (RegOpenKey et al.), or create a new class from the TRegistry component, and change the new TRegistry class to add an access property. Regards Paul McKenzie Wellington New Zealand Phil Scadden wrote: > I want to detect where current user of program has write access to > the hkey_local_machine hive. (so I can choose to display the a settings > option on a menu). Short of attempt a write and then read, is there another > way to detect this? > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences > 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand > Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list > [email protected] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
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