Is there any cross-platform way to check that my Python script is executed with admin rights? Unfortunately, os.getuid()
is UNIX-only and is not available under Win
Here's a utility function I created from the accepted answer:
import os
import ctypes
class AdminStateUnknownError(Exception):
"""Cannot determine whether the user is an admin."""
pass
def is_user_admin():
# type: () -> bool
"""Return True if user has admin privileges.
Raises:
AdminStateUnknownError if user privileges cannot be determined.
"""
try:
return os.getuid() == 0
except AttributeError:
pass
try:
return ctypes.windll.shell32.IsUserAnAdmin() == 1
except AttributeError:
raise AdminStateUnknownError