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grigoryvp
Asked: 2009-06-23 02:53:08 +0800 CST

Crossplatform way to check admin rights in python script?

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Is it any cross-platform way to check that my python script is executed under admin rights? Unfortunately, os.getuid() is UNIX-only and is not available under windows :(.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer
    import ctypes
import os

try:
    is_admin = os.getuid() == 0
except AttributeError:
    is_admin = ctypes.windll.shell32.IsUserAnAdmin()

print is_admin
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  2. "Admin rights" is meaningless. Both Unix and Windows have a long list of different privileges that a particular user may or may not have. You should just try to do what you want to do and use exceptions to deal with lack of privileges. That's that they're there for.

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