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.

Building

Create the build files using CMake and build using your native build tools (Visual Studio/make/etc.).

• Example (Visual Studio). In the example below, the project directory is "C:\workspace\personal\privilege-check" and Visual Studio 2015 is used, targeting x86-64.

  > cmake -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" C:\workspace\personal\privilege-check
  ...
  
  > cmake --build . --config release
  ...
  

• Example (MinGW-w64). Another example, this time using Cygwin + MinGW-w64, targeting x86-64 (the project directory is "/cygdrive/c/workspace/personal/privilege-check").

  > cmake -G "Unix Makefiles"                         \
      -D CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++    \
      -D CMAKE_RC_COMPILER=x86_64-w64-mingw32-windres \
      -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release                     \
      /cygdrive/c/workspace/personal/privilege-test
  ...
  
  > cmake --build . -- -j
  ...
  

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

UAC off

* True on domain controllers.

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.txt for details.