How do I detect if an arbitrary user is an administrator on a machine? I have the user’s domain and username but not password. The user is NOT the currently logged in user, so I can’t just use WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent.
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How do I detect if an arbitrary user is an administrator on a machine? I have the user’s domain and username but not password. The user is NOT the currently logged in user, so I can’t just use WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent.
Use LDAP. See examples here.