Logon Account Permissions Checker

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Introduction

Many a times, when we write a simple application that accesses some system resources and if Local Security Policy needs administrative rights to run the application, then our application would just crash. For simple testing purposes too, using a MSI installer would be an involved process. Perhaps a small class to automatically check for administrative privileges of the logged on account or the account that is being used to run the application (using the RunAs utility) would be really helpful in these circumstances.

Solution

In .NET, investigating the account's principal, logged on name etc. is just a breeze. System.Security namespace has dozens of utilities and classes that really helps in getting the thing done like in the current context, checking whether the account has administrative rights etc.

Additions

The class that checks the account roles has been kept separate in the accompanying demo file from the application, since we can in the future add facilities like checking for roles, permissions and more granular level operations can be incorporated over there.