I’m trying to find a list of Win32 API functions that require the process that uses them to have heightened administrative privileges in order to use them. Does anyone know where I could find a list of these functions? Thanks!
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I’m trying to find a list of Win32 API functions that require the process that uses them to have heightened administrative privileges in order to use them. Does anyone know where I could find a list of these functions? Thanks!
Such a list simply does not and can not exist. Because an API alone does not determine what privileges are required (it can, but in most cases it doesn’t).
For example take one of the oldest and most used APIs there is: CreateFile.
is allowed for normal users, creating
a global pipe or networked pipe
usually isn’t (depends on further
security settings/group policies).
And many more examples.