> Hi ng,
>
> I want to know if a user has admin rightsSo I wrote the following code
> to check, if the user is in the admin-group:
>
> Dim bIsInRole as Boolean
> Dim myUser As Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity =
> Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent()
> Dim myPrincipal As New Principal.WindowsPrincipal(myUser)
> bIsInRole  =
> myPrincipal.IsInRole(Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator).ToString()
>
>
> Works fine, but now I have another problem: If the User is not in
> admin-group but in another group which belongs to the admins (or has
> admin-rights), my code doesn't work.
>
> Does anybody know how I can check if a group belongs to the admins?
> Or does anybody know about another way to check, if a user has
> admin-rights?
>
> Thanx,
> Norman
>