Detecting if you are an Admin

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This came up on an internal alias.  A customer wanted to know how to determine if there were running as an admin in a tool.  Below is a sample program that will print out whether or not you are the machine admin or a member of the machine administrators group. 

 

This is essentially the same as the code in a previous post of mine but ported to VB.  https://blogs.msdn.com/jaredpar/archive/2005/11/07/489942.aspx

 Imports System.Security.Principal
Module Module1

    Function IsRunningAsLocalAdmin() As Boolean
        Dim cur As WindowsIdentity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent()
        For Each role As IdentityReference In cur.Groups
            If role.IsValidTargetType(GetType(SecurityIdentifier)) Then
                Dim sid As SecurityIdentifier = DirectCast(role.Translate(GetType(SecurityIdentifier)), SecurityIdentifier)
                If sid.IsWellKnown(WellKnownSidType.AccountAdministratorSid) OrElse sid.IsWellKnown(WellKnownSidType.BuiltinAdministratorsSid) Then
                    Return True
                End If

            End If
        Next

        Return False
    End Function

    Sub Main()
        Console.WriteLine("Is Admin {0}", IsRunningAsLocalAdmin())
    End Sub

End Module