Detecting Process Privileges

From: Elisha Berns (e.berns_at_computer.org)
Date: 12/17/03 

Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:46:00 -0800

Forgive the ignorance about security matters, this is
perhaps a newbie question:

During installation of a font I need to write to a
registry key to make sure the font is properly installed.
Apparently this only works if the current process
has "admin" privileges.

So how can I detect that the current process, or user,
has "admin" write privileges for this reg key?

Thanks for any help here,

Elisha Berns

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