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How to find out what privileges, group membership and access tokens you have

  • Artigo

Several presenters at events such as TechEd and ITForum make use of a a really handy utility named "whoami". It's a resource kit utility that you can use to query attributes from your user context. Those of you who have experience of UNIX shell commands will already be familiar with a very similar command.

The image below shows the typical output for an administrative user running on Windows XP.

You can download the utility for yourself (for free) by clicking here.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2006
    Thanks Steve I was looking for this after you sent the output last week
  • Anonymous
    March 09, 2006
    WHOAMI is built into the Vista February CTP, perhaps it's going mainstream.
  • Anonymous
    March 10, 2006
    Indeed it is