I am looking for an easy way to get the SID for the current Windows user account. I know I can do it through WMI, but I don't want to go that route.
Apologies to everybody that answered in C# for not specifying it's C++. :-)
I am looking for an easy way to get the SID for the current Windows user account. I know I can do it through WMI, but I don't want to go that route.
Apologies to everybody that answered in C# for not specifying it's C++. :-)
In Win32, call GetTokenInformation, passing a token handle and the TokenUser
constant. It will fill in a TOKEN_USER structure for you. One of the elements in there is the user's SID. It's a BLOB (binary), but you can turn it into a string by using ConvertSidToStringSid.
To get hold of the current token handle, use OpenThreadToken or OpenProcessToken.
If you prefer ATL, it has the CAccessToken class, which has all sorts of interesting things in it.
.NET has the Thread.CurrentPrinciple property, which returns an IPrincipal reference. You can get the SID:
IPrincipal principal = Thread.CurrentPrincipal;
WindowsIdentity identity = principal.Identity as WindowsIdentity;
if (identity != null)
Console.WriteLine(identity.User);
Also in .NET, you can use WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent(), which returns the current user ID:
WindowsIdentity identity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent();
if (identity != null)
Console.WriteLine(identity.User);
This should give you what you need:
using System.Security.Principal;
...
var sid = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().User;
The User property of WindowsIdentity returns the SID, per MSDN Docs
ATL::CAccessToken accessToken;
ATL::CSid currentUserSid;
if (accessToken.GetProcessToken(TOKEN_READ | TOKEN_QUERY) &&
accessToken.GetUser(¤tUserSid))
return currentUserSid.Sid();
CodeProject has a few different methods you can try... You didn't mention what languages you wanted a solution in.
If you want to access it via a batch file or something, you can look as PsGetSid by Sysinternals. It translates SIDs to names and vice versa.
In C# you can use either
using Microsoft.Win32.Security;
...
string username = Environment.UserName + "@" + Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("USERDNSDOMAIN");
Sid sidUser = new Sid (username);
Or...
using System.Security.AccessControl;
using System.Security.Principal;
...
WindowsIdentity m_Self = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent();
SecurityIdentifier m_SID = m_Self.Owner;");
I found another way to get SID:
System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity id = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent();
string sid = id.User.AccountDomainSid.ToString();
And in native code:
function GetCurrentUserSid: string;
hAccessToken: THandle;
userToken: PTokenUser;
dwInfoBufferSize: DWORD;
dw: DWORD;
if not OpenThreadToken(GetCurrentThread, TOKEN_QUERY, True, ref hAccessToken) then
dw <- GetLastError;
if dw <> ERROR_NO_TOKEN then
RaiseLastOSError(dw);
if not OpenProcessToken(GetCurrentProcess, TOKEN_QUERY, ref hAccessToken) then
RaiseLastOSError;
try
userToken <- GetMemory(1024);
try
if not GetTokenInformation(hAccessToken, TokenUser, userToken, 1024, ref dwInfoBufferSize) then
RaiseLastOSError;
Result <- SidToString(userToken.User.Sid);
finally
FreeMemory(userToken);
finally
CloseHandle(hAccessToken);
You didn't specify what language you want. But if you're up for C# this article offers both the WMI method as well as a faster (while more verbose) method utilizing the Win32 API.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/processownersid.aspx
I don't think there's currently another way of doing this without using WMI or the Win32 API.
This one is the shortest of them all I believe.
UserPrincipal.Current.Sid;
Available with .net >= 3.5
This question is tagged as c++
And I answer in c++
language, So I recommend use of WMI tool :
So, As WMI commands in powershell
, bellow command get SID
of system-pc1
user :
Get-WmiObject win32_useraccount -Filter "name = 'system-pc1'" | Select-Object sid
First, you need to get current username
with bellow code
:
char username[UNLEN+1];
DWORD username_len = UNLEN+1;
GetUserName(username, &username_len);
Now you can try with WQL
language and execute this query in c++
as bellow (in this example , I used of system-pc1
username in WQL_WIN32_USERACCOUNT_QUERY
query :
#define NETWORK_RESOURCE "root\\CIMV2"
#define WQL_LANGUAGE "WQL"
#define WQL_WIN32_USERACCOUNT_QUERY "SELECT * FROM Win32_Useraccount where name='system-pc1'"
#define WQL_SID "SID"
IWbemLocator *pLoc = 0; // Obtain initial locator to WMI to a particular host computer
IWbemServices *pSvc = 0; // To use of connection that created with CoCreateInstance()
ULONG uReturn = 0;
HRESULT hResult = S_OK; // Result when we initializing
IWbemClassObject *pClsObject = NULL; // A class for handle IEnumWbemClassObject objects
IEnumWbemClassObject *pEnumerator = NULL; // To enumerate objects
VARIANT vtSID = { 0 }; // OS name property
// Initialize COM library
hResult = CoInitializeEx(0, COINIT_MULTITHREADED);
if (SUCCEEDED(hResult))
{
// Initialize security
hResult = CoInitializeSecurity(NULL, -1, NULL, NULL, RPC_C_AUTHN_LEVEL_DEFAULT,
RPC_C_IMP_LEVEL_IMPERSONATE, NULL, EOAC_NONE, NULL);
if (SUCCEEDED(hResult))
{
// Create only one object on the local system
hResult = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_WbemLocator, 0, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,
IID_IWbemLocator, (LPVOID*)&pLoc);
if (SUCCEEDED(hResult))
{
// Connect to specific host system namespace
hResult = pLoc->ConnectServer(TEXT(NETWORK_RESOURCE), NULL, NULL,
0, NULL, 0, 0, &pSvc);
if (SUCCEEDED(hResult))
{
/* Set the IWbemServices proxy
* So the impersonation of the user will be occurred */
hResult = CoSetProxyBlanket(pSvc, RPC_C_AUTHN_WINNT, RPC_C_AUTHZ_NONE,
NULL, RPC_C_AUTHN_LEVEL_CALL, RPC_C_IMP_LEVEL_IMPERSONATE,
NULL, EOAC_NONE);
if (SUCCEEDED(hResult))
{
/* Use the IWbemServices pointer to make requests of WMI
* For example, query for user account */
hResult = pSvc->ExecQuery(TEXT(WQL_LANGUAGE), TEXT(WQL_WIN32_USERACCOUNT_QUERY),
WBEM_FLAG_FORWARD_ONLY | WBEM_FLAG_RETURN_IMMEDIATELY, NULL, &pEnumerator);
if (SUCCEEDED(hResult))
{
// Go to get the next object from IEnumWbemClassObject
pEnumerator->Next(WBEM_INFINITE, 1, &pClsObject, &uReturn);
if (uReturn != 0)
{
// Get the value of the "sid, ..." property
pClsObject->Get(TEXT(WQL_SID), 0, &vtSID, 0, 0);
VariantClear(&vtSID);
// Print SID
wcout << vtSID.bstrVal;
pClsObject->Release();
pClsObject = NULL;
}
}
}
}
}
}
// Cleanup
pSvc->Release();
pLoc->Release();
pEnumerator->Release();
// Uninitialize COM library
CoUninitialize();
This example does works properly!