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Privilege check
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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
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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
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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
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Distributed under the MIT License.
See [LICENSE.txt] for details.
[LICENSE.txt]: LICENSE.txt
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