Determine rights and privileges on Windows.

[Peter Schmiedeskamp]

Hello, I'm writing a python program (in Windows) from
which I would like to determine whether or not either:
1. The user has administrative access on the current
PC.
or (better)
2. The currently running process has administrative
access.

For the first scenario, the
win32security.LsaEnumerateAccountRight() seems to to
be the ticket. The documentation doesn't describe
what this function requires as parameters. It appears
to require a PySID object and some sort of PyHANDLE
object. I've figured out how to get the PySID object,
but I'm not sure what type of PyHANDLE is required (or
how to create such a thing)

My other alternative is to check the running process
for its authority. There appear to a number of
functions that sound potentially logical to use,
however I'm unable to determine which I should use.

Has anyone done such a thing? Many thanks to anyone
who can give me a shove down the right path.

-Peter


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[Roger Upole]

The first parm to LsaEnumerateAccountRights is a policy handle returned
from LsaOpenPolicy. I'll try to update the documentation.
To list the privileges for the current process, you can use something like
this:

import win32process, win32security
ph=win32process.GetCurrentProcess()
th = win32security.OpenProcessToken(ph,win32security.TO KEN_READ)
privs=win32security.GetTokenInformation(th,win32se curity.TokenPrivileges)
for priv in privs:
priv_state=''
if priv[1]==0:
priv_state='Disabled'
if priv[1]&win32security.SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED:
priv_state+=' SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED'
if priv[1]&win32security.SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT:
priv_state+=' SE_PRIVILEGE_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT'
print win32security.LookupPrivilegeName(None,priv[0]),priv[1],priv_state
Note that the None parm to LookupPrivilegeName means to use the local
machine, substitute your DC if you're in a domain.
hth
Roger
"Peter Schmiedeskamp" <ps******@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Hello, I'm writing a python program (in Windows) from
which I would like to determine whether or not either:
1. The user has administrative access on the current
PC.
or (better)
2. The currently running process has administrative
access.

For the first scenario, the
win32security.LsaEnumerateAccountRight() seems to to
be the ticket. The documentation doesn't describe
what this function requires as parameters. It appears
to require a PySID object and some sort of PyHANDLE
object. I've figured out how to get the PySID object,
but I'm not sure what type of PyHANDLE is required (or
how to create such a thing)

My other alternative is to check the running process
for its authority. There appear to a number of
functions that sound potentially logical to use,
however I'm unable to determine which I should use.

Has anyone done such a thing? Many thanks to anyone
who can give me a shove down the right path.

-Peter


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[Colin Brown]

"Peter Schmiedeskamp" <ps******@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Hello, I'm writing a python program (in Windows) from
which I would like to determine whether or not either:
1. The user has administrative access on the current
PC.
or (better)
2. The currently running process has administrative
access.

Hi Peter

It may be worth having a look at WMI (Google "python wmi").

Cheers
Colin Brown
PyNZ