Checking to see if a user is a domain Administrator

[Jonny]

Hey all,

I need to verify that a provided username is a Domain Administrator. Any idea's on how to do this?

Thanks,

Jonny
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/Jonny

[Uri Dor]

I'd look up WindowsIdentity and WindowsPrincipa l.IsInRole() in MSDN,
seems like the answer

Jonny wrote:

Hey all,

I need to verify that a provided username is a Domain Administrator. Any idea's on how to do this?

Thanks,

Jonny

[Scott Allen]

Although the following KB article is primarily targeted at forms
authentication in ASP.NET, it does demonstrate how to validate a
username and password against active directory and then find the
groups the user is a member of.

How to authenticate against the Active Directory by using Forms
authentication and Visual C# .NET
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;316748

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Scott
http://www.OdeToCode.com

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 04:42:05 -0700, "Jonny"
<Jo***@discussi ons.microsoft.c om> wrote:

Hey all,

I need to verify that a provided username is a Domain Administrator. Any idea's on how to do this?

Thanks,

Jonny

[mikeb]

Jonny wrote:

Hey all,

I need to verify that a provided username is a Domain Administrator. Any idea's on how to do this?

Look at the sample code for WindowsIdentity .Impersonate(). That shows
how to get an WindowsIdentity using a username/password.

then take that Identity and create a WindowsPrincipa l and call the
IsInRole() method:

bool isDomAdmin = new WindowsPrincipa l(
WindowsIdentity .GetCurrent()). IsInRole(@"DOMA INNAME\Domain Admins")

There are several caveats with this:

- it requires unsafe code
- it won't work on Win9x
- it won't work in Win NT or Win 2000 unless the user context that
it's running under has the TCB privilege (LogonUser() needs that
privilege on those OS's to work)
- there is a bug with IsInROle( string) where the match on the role
name might be case-sensitive if the user belongs to more than 22 groups
(or something like that).
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mikeb

[Scott Allen]

Hi Jonny:

Ah, in that case ...

Here is some code that would list all the users in the Administrators
group:

DirectoryEntry group =
new DirectoryEntry( "WinNT://MACHINENAME/Administrators" );
object members = group.Invoke("M embers",null);
foreach( object member in (IEnumerable) members)
{
DirectoryEntry x = new DirectoryEntry( member);
Response.Write( x.Name);
Response.Write( "<br>");
}

And a little code to list all the groups for a given user:

DirectoryEntry member = new DirectoryEntry( "WinNT://MACHINE/USER");
object groups = member.Invoke(" Groups", null);
foreach( object group in (IEnumerable) groups)
{
DirectoryEntry x = new DirectoryEntry( group);
Response.Write( x.Name);
Response.Write( "<br>");
}
Hopefully that will help you out. Do you also need to validate the
password?

--s

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 08:44:02 -0700, "Jonny"
<Jo***@discussi ons.microsoft.c om> wrote:

You don't happen to kno whow to do it in a non-AD Domain?

Thanks :)

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Scott
http://www.OdeToCode.com

[Scott Allen]

I know on windows 2000 LogonUser requires some elevated permissions.

Are you on 2000 or XP / 2003?

Do you need the user token to do impersonation? Or just simply
validate the password?
--
Scott
http://www.OdeToCode.com

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:11:04 -0700, "Jonny"
<Jo***@discussi ons.microsoft.c om> wrote:

Actually, could you tell me your method. It would appear calling the advapi32.dll",E ntryPoint = "LogonUser" is not reliable, or particularly fast.

Thanks !

[Jonny]

Hi Scott,

I only need to validate the password, the method needs to be multi-OS, i.e. NT, 2K, XP and 2K3. It also needs to be pretty quick. I don't really have a problem if i have to different methods for each OS, its just preferable. The user running the App will more than likely be a Domain Administrator, if not they should not be running it in the first place.

Thanks again,

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/Jonny
"Scott Allen" wrote:

I know on windows 2000 LogonUser requires some elevated permissions.

Are you on 2000 or XP / 2003?

Do you need the user token to do impersonation? Or just simply
validate the password?
--
Scott
http://www.OdeToCode.com

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:11:04 -0700, "Jonny"
<Jo***@discussi ons.microsoft.c om> wrote:

Actually, could you tell me your method. It would appear calling the advapi32.dll",E ntryPoint = "LogonUser" is not reliable, or particularly fast.

Thanks !

[Jonny]

Hi Scott,

I only need to validate the password, the method needs to be multi-OS, i.e. NT, 2K, XP and 2K3. It also needs to be pretty quick. I don't really have a problem if i have to different methods for each OS, its just preferable. The user running the App will more than likely be a Domain Administrator, if not they should not be running it in the first place.

Thanks again,

--
/Jonny
"Scott Allen" wrote:

I know on windows 2000 LogonUser requires some elevated permissions.

Are you on 2000 or XP / 2003?

Do you need the user token to do impersonation? Or just simply
validate the password?
--
Scott
http://www.OdeToCode.com

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:11:04 -0700, "Jonny"
<Jo***@discussi ons.microsoft.c om> wrote:

Actually, could you tell me your method. It would appear calling the advapi32.dll",E ntryPoint = "LogonUser" is not reliable, or particularly fast.

Thanks !

[Jonny]

Hi Scott,

I only need to validate the password, the method needs to be multi-OS, i.e. NT, 2K, XP and 2K3. It also needs to be pretty quick. I don't really have a problem if i have to different methods for each OS, its just preferable. The user running the App will more than likely be a Domain Administrator, if not they should not be running it in the first place.

Thanks again,

--
/Jonny
"Scott Allen" wrote:

I know on windows 2000 LogonUser requires some elevated permissions.

Are you on 2000 or XP / 2003?

Do you need the user token to do impersonation? Or just simply
validate the password?
--
Scott
http://www.OdeToCode.com

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:11:04 -0700, "Jonny"
<Jo***@discussi ons.microsoft.c om> wrote:

Actually, could you tell me your method. It would appear calling the advapi32.dll",E ntryPoint = "LogonUser" is not reliable, or particularly fast.

Thanks !

[Scott Allen]

Jonny:

I dug around a little bit but I can't come up with any links on the
topic of LogonUser performance :/

--s

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 01:15:01 -0700, "Jonny"
<Jo***@discussi ons.microsoft.c om> wrote:

Hi Scott,

I only need to validate the password, the method needs to be multi-OS, i.e. NT, 2K, XP and 2K3. It also needs to be pretty quick. I don't really have a problem if i have to different methods for each OS, its just preferable. The user running the App will more than likely be a Domain Administrator, if not they should not be running it in the first place.

Thanks again,

--
Scott
http://www.OdeToCode.com