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How can I get a list Local Windows Users (Only the Users that appear in the windows Logon Screen)

Just add a reference to System.Management in a Console Application and try this code: using System; using System.Management; using System.Linq; namespace ConsoleApplication5 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { ManagementObjectSearcher usersSearcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(@”SELECT * FROM Win32_UserAccount”); ManagementObjectCollection users = usersSearcher.Get(); var localUsers = users.Cast<ManagementObject>().Where( u => (bool)u[“LocalAccount”] == true && (bool)u[“Disabled”] == … Read more

Verify user password in Meteor

I can help with the first question. As of this writing, meteor doesn’t have a checkPassword method, but here’s how you can do it: On the client, I’m going to assume you have a form with an input called password and a button called check-password. The event code could look something like this: Template.userAccount.events({ ‘click … Read more

create local user account

I had a very similar issue change the first line to PrincipalContext context = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Machine, “127.0.0.1”); see if that fixes your issue. And triple check that the program is running with administrator privileges. The other issue it could be is the server has password complexity requirements and password that is being passed in to … Read more

powershell – list local users and their groups

For Googlers, another way to get a list of users is to use: Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_UserAccount From http://buckeyejeeps.com/blog/?p=764

How to grant full permission to a file created by my application for ALL users?

Note to people using this. When using literal strings for the FileSystemAccessRule, it should be WellKnownSidType.WorldSid instead of “everyone”. The reason is because there are multiple Window languages and Everyone only applies to EN ones, so for Spanish, it might be “Todos” (or something else). using System.Security.AccessControl; using System.Security.Principal; using System.IO; private void GrantAccess(string fullPath) … Read more

How do you run CMD.exe under the Local System Account?

Though I haven’t personally tested, I have good reason to believe that the above stated AT COMMAND solution will work for XP, 2000 and Server 2003. Per my and Bryant’s testing, we’ve identified that the same approach does not work with Vista or Windows Server 2008 — most probably due to added security and the … Read more

Start / Stop a Windows Service from a non-Administrator user account

Below I have put together everything I learned about Starting/Stopping a Windows Service from a non-Admin user account, if anyone needs to know. Primarily, there are two ways in which to Start / Stop a Windows Service. 1. Directly accessing the service through logon Windows user account. 2. Accessing the service through IIS using Network … Read more

What are all the user accounts for IIS/ASP.NET and how do they differ?

This is a very good question and sadly many developers don’t ask enough questions about IIS/ASP.NET security in the context of being a web developer and setting up IIS. So here goes…. To cover the identities listed: IIS_IUSRS: This is analogous to the old IIS6 IIS_WPG group. It’s a built-in group with it’s security configured … Read more

Creating and managing a Facebook app from a Business Account [closed]

‘Business’ or advertising accounts can’t manage apps – if at some point in the past you were able to create an app using a business account this was a bug or loophole and shouldn’t have been possible – only real verified user accounts should be able to create and manage apps. It’s also possible to … Read more

Detect if running as Administrator with or without elevated privileges?

Try this out: using Microsoft.Win32; using System; using System.Diagnostics; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using System.Security.Principal; public static class UacHelper { private const string uacRegistryKey = “Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\System”; private const string uacRegistryValue = “EnableLUA”; private static uint STANDARD_RIGHTS_READ = 0x00020000; private static uint TOKEN_QUERY = 0x0008; private static uint TOKEN_READ = (STANDARD_RIGHTS_READ | TOKEN_QUERY); [DllImport(“advapi32.dll”, SetLastError = true)] [return: … Read more