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/*
Module: MYTOKEN.CPP
When you log on to a Microsoft Windows NT based platform, NT generates
an Access Token that describes who you are, what groups you belong to,
and what privileges you have on that computer.
The following sample code demonstrates how to extract this interesting
information from the current thread/process access token. When I look
at this information I tend to seperate it into three categories
1. User identification and miscellaneous info
2. Group information
3. Privileges
Notes about the group information:
1) You will see a group sid with the form NONE_MAPPED. This is
the login SID generated for this particular logon session. It is
unique until the server is rebooted.
2) Many of the group SIDS are well-known SIDs and RIDs. Consult the
documentation for information about these well-known Identifiers.
Notes about the privileges information:
The attributes number is simply a bit flag. 1 indicates that the
privilege is enabled and 2 indicates that the privilege is enabled
by default. 3, of course, indicates that it is enabled by default
and currently enabled.
This code sample requires the following import libraries:
advapi32.lib
user32.lib
*/
