[DUG] Detecting admin privilege

[Paul McKenzie]

This may help...
This is a link I save ages ago (in case I need to do something similar)

http://www.delphi32.com/info_facts/faq/faq_349.asp
When using the TRegistry component under NT, a user with less than "administrator" rights is unable 
to access information stored in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. How can I work around this?


The problem is caused by the fact that TRegistry (and the derived TRegInifile) always opens a key 
with KEY_ALL_ACCESS, even if only KEY_READ would be needed. You can avoid this by going back to 
using the API registry functions (RegOpenKey et al.), or create a new class from the TRegistry 
component, and change the new TRegistry class to add an access property.



Regards
Paul McKenzie
Wellington
New Zealand


Phil Scadden wrote:
> I want to detect where current user of program has write access to
> the hkey_local_machine hive. (so I can choose to display the a settings
> option on a menu). Short of attempt a write and then read, is there another
> way to detect this?
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences
> 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand
> Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Delphi mailing list
> Delphi at ns3.123.co.nz
> http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
> 
>