Checking to see if user is in a specific group

[Grasser]

I am searching for a way to check if a user is a member of a specific group using Visual C++. Our application allows a user to belong to more than one group. I suspect that there is some sort of system call that either returns a list of groups that a user belongs to or else provides a boolean routine that checks if a user belongs
to a specific group. Either type would work. Thanks in advance.

 

[williamu]

Hi,

Before we can answer this we need to know what these groups are and how these groups are assigned to the user.

William
Software Engineer
ICQ No. 56047340

 

[Grasser]

The groups that I am referring to are the Windows Access Control groups that are assigned using the Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Local Users and Groups->Groups dialog. I would like to create a set of groups that I can assign various users to. Then I would like to create some software that queries the operating system to determine what groups the person running the software belongs to. We expect to allow a user to belong to more than one of these newly defined groups.

I've seen some code samples that show how to check if the user is a member of the Administrators group but those examples do not seem to be extendable to any other groups.

 

[williamu]

Well in that case you need to use the NetUserGetGroups(...) function.

HTH
William
Software Engineer
ICQ No. 56047340