IsAdmin

[SMurphy]

Okay, as I continue forward on my Novell to AD migration VBScript, I've hit a small snag. At a previous client, they had AutoIT and had a .exe called IsAdmin. It returned a 1 or a 0 depending on the rights of the user. I see that this is a function in AutoIT and have even been able to test it successfully using...

if IsAdmin <> 0 then
msgbox(0,"","You have admin rights")
end if

However, what I really want is an executable that I can call from VBScript and then capture the return code like this...

Set oShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

rcIsAdmin = oShell.Run("Isadmin.exe -q", 0, True)

If rcIsAdmin = 0 Then
    Wscript.Echo "You have do not have admin rights"
    WScript.Quit
End If

Thanks,

Sean

Edited November 16, 2006 by SMurphy

[Jos]

Okay, as I continue forward on my Novell to AD migration VBScript, I've hit a small snag. At a previous client, they had AutoIT and had a .exe called IsAdmin. It returned a 1 or a 0 depending on the rights of the user. I see that this is a function in AutoIT and have even been able to test it successfully using...

if IsAdmin <> 0 then
msgbox(0,"","You have admin rights")
end if

However, what I really want is an executable that I can call from VBScript and then capture the return code like this...

Set oShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

rcIsAdmin = oShell.Run("Isadmin.exe -q", 0, True)

If rcIsAdmin = 0 Then
    Wscript.Echo "You have do not have admin rights"
    WScript.Quit
End If

Thanks,

Sean

Did you try RunWait() ? should return the RC of the program ...

[SMurphy]

Did you try RunWait() ? should return the RC of the program ...

Hmm... No, I'm writing VBScript.. I just want to make the IsAdmin funtion into an EXE that returns the same RC as the function. Then I will call that EXE from within my VBScript.

[Jos]

Hmm... No, I'm writing VBScript.. I just want to make the IsAdmin funtion into an EXE that returns the same RC as the function. Then I will call that EXE from within my VBScript.

you mean an autoit3 compiled script return it ?

This should do that:

Return isAdmin()

Or use AutoIt3X ...

Edited November 16, 2006 by JdeB

[SMurphy]

Okay... so, I created an AutoIT script...

Return is IsAdmin()

and it echos "ADMIN".

So, the function appears to work, but when I complile it to an EXE, it's returning the wrong RC.

Ideas?

Edited November 16, 2006 by SMurphy

[Valik]

JdeB meant:

Exit IsAdmin()

[Jos]

JdeB meant:

Exit IsAdmin()

yes... thats what i meant

[Valik]

If it's any consolation, I wish Return worked like that from global scope but it was deemed superfluous so I didn't bother implementing it.