Privilege check
Check your privilege. On Windows.
Displays a window, showing
- if the current user belongs to the BUILTIN\Administrators group,
- whether the process is "run as Administrator",
- if it has elevated privileges,
- process's "integrity level".
If it's not "run as Administrator", a button allows to actually re-run the executable as Administrator, utilizing Windows' User Account Control feature.
Development
Build using CMake. The project is Windows-only, so building with either MSVC or MinGW-64 is required.
There's a Makefile with useful shortcuts to build the project in the build/ directory (defaults to building with MinGW-w64):
make build
Cross table
Snippets of information provided by the tool on different Windows versions are summarized in the table below.
"Administrator" below stands for the built-in Administrator account. "testadmin" is a user that belongs to the BUILTIN\Administrators group. "test" is a user that doesn't belong to this group.
UAC on
| User | Windows 7 | Windows 8.1 | Windows 2012 R2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Administrator | Integrity level | - | - | High |
| Elevated? | - | - | True | |
| testadmin | Integrity level | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| Elevated? | False | False | False | |
| test | Integrity level | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| Elevated? | False | False | False |
UAC off
| User | Windows 7 | Windows 8.1 | Windows 2012 R2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Administrator | Integrity level | - | - | High |
| Elevated? | - | - | True | |
| testadmin | Integrity level | High | High | High |
| Elevated? | True | True | True | |
| test | Integrity level | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| Elevated? | False | False | False* |
* True on domain controllers.
License
Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for details.