Checking for Administrator user login in non-English installations of windows
administrator, authentication, delphi, non-english
Solution
No, don't do it that way. It will surely break. You could get a list of all the groups the user is a member of and check if one of the SIDs is `S-1-5-32-544`, which is the SID of the Administrators group. There is a list of well known SIDs. There is also an SID for the original administrator account.
Here is the list:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/243330
Problem
I have some small questions...I have a program that stores a list of users in a database and compares on program startup if the user is in the list or is an administrator before letting them use it. At the moment, the way I'm using to check if the user is an administrator is simply by comparing the username to a string constant called 'ADMINISTRATOR'. Will this work on a non-Engish system? I.E. does Windows use a language specific version of 'administrator'? Or maybe is there an enumerated version of the Admin user that I can use to check with instead of my 'ADMINISTRATOR' string? (you know, just like how Windows folders are enumerated). I'm using Delphi 2009 by the way. Thanks in advance!