Check Group Membershp

[PayneBack3]

Im trying to create a script to install software only if the user is in s specific group,but it does not seem to work,everytime it sas that im not a member.

Please Assist.

$Groupmember=Runwait ("ifmember.exe /v Admin") ;check for membership of Admin-Users

if Not $Groupmember Then

MsgBox (16, "Error!", "User is not a member of Admin-Users")

Exit (1)

EndIf

[water]

If you want to check membership for an Active Directory group you can use the AD UDF (for download please see my signature).

Function _AD_IsMemberOf() will do what you need.

[PayneBack3]

Hi water thanks for the response

i'm new on Autoit

can you please show me an example how to check membership ?

Thanks.

[water]

  On 5/19/2010 at 12:31 PM, 'PayneBack3 said:

Hi water thanks for the response

i'm new on Autoit

can you please show me an example how to check membership ?

Thanks.

When you download the AD UDF there is an example script for every function. Please see file _AD_IsMemberOf.au3

The script first gets a list of all groups the user is a member of and then checks if the user is a member of the first group. This always returns true but the script checks every other possible return codes and therefore should give you an idea how to solve your problem.

[Country73]

  On 5/19/2010 at 8:18 AM, 'PayneBack3 said:

Im trying to create a script to install software only if the user is in s specific group,but it does not seem to work,everytime it sas that im not a member.

Please Assist.

$Groupmember=Runwait ("ifmember.exe /v Admin") ;check for membership of Admin-Users

if Not $Groupmember Then

MsgBox (16, "Error!", "User is not a member of Admin-Users")

Exit (1)

EndIf

Just so you have an example for using "ifmember". I still bounce over to it once in a while.

#include <Array.au3>
#include <Constants.au3>

Local $ifMem = "\\xena.statestr.com\LOGON\KansasCity\ifmember.exe"

Local $foo = Run(@ComSpec & " /c " & $ifMem & " /l",@SystemDir,@SW_HIDE,$STDERR_CHILD + $STDOUT_CHILD)
Local $line
Local $aGroups

;Read all details from IFMEMBER
While 1
    $line = StdoutRead($foo)
    If @error Then ExitLoop
    If Not $line = "" Then $aGroups &= StringUpper($line)
WEnd

;Split each group to handle individually
Local $mSplit = StringSplit($aGroups,@LF)

;Extract first of each line so only Group Name remains
Local $Output
For $a = 1 To $mSplit[0]
    $Output = StringReplace($mSplit[$a],"USER IS A MEMBER OF GROUP ","")
    _ArraySwap($mSplit[$a],$Output)
Next

;Sort Groups alphabetically so search is quicker, display for example
_ArraySort($mSplit,0,1)
_ArrayDisplay($mSplit,'Groups')
Exit

You can now search through the Array to look for the specific group membership.

Hope that works out for you as well.

[Edit]

I run it in this manner since I generally have my script to look for several different group memberships to run different things.

Edited May 19, 2010 by Country73