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Article #10915Re: Check if the user is logged as admin...
From: Boba
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:45
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:45
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"Vladimir Stefanovic" <antivari@ptt.yu> wrote in message news:405b0eeb@newsgroups.borland.com... > I tried today to make some accounts on XP. > If the user hasn't admin rights he cannot even > manualy edit ODBC connections. I'd call this behaviour 'by design'. > > But the mistery is that sometimes the user which > has admin rights CAN change it manualy but the > SQLDataConfigDataSource() fails ?!. by 'manualy' you mean system or 3rd party tools? The SQLConfigDataSource function envokes a lot of other calls, which are subject to access rite checking and those may fail causing the function return false. > > It happens mainly on the machines where more > than one OS exists, but I haven't tested that more... the worse scenario I ever seen was when the call returned true but nothing happened (it was a single OS PC) - updating the driver solved the problem. Be careful: some software may not be happy with these updates. Boba
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