Find localized name of a the LocalSystem account (NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM)

[Boaz Ben-Porat]

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We need to find the localized name of the LocalSystem account. Onenglish
windows it is 'NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM', but on other OSs it is something else.
(e.g. In German it is 'NT AUTHORITÄT\SYSTEM )

The SID of the LocalSystem account is S-1-5-18', so we tried using
Win32_Group class/table with SID='S-1-5-18' (On an english Windows). The
Name property is 'SYSTEM', but 'NT AUTHORITY' is not found in any member of
the Win32_Group.

How do we get the full name of an account?

TIA

Boaz Ben-Porat
Milestone systems

 

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

This message is posted in the WMI group, but since the last answer in that
group is one month old I post it in C# group too.

We need to find the localized name of the LocalSystem account. Onenglish
windows it is 'NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM', but on other OSs it is something
else.
(e.g. In German it is 'NT AUTHORITÄT\SYSTEM )

The SID of the LocalSystem account is S-1-5-18', so we tried using
Win32_Group class/table with SID='S-1-5-18' (On an english Windows). The
Name property is 'SYSTEM', but 'NT AUTHORITY' is not found in any member
of
the Win32_Group.

How do we get the full name of an account?

TIA

Boaz Ben-Porat
Milestone systems

Don't know what you mean here, SYSTEM\NT_AUTHORITY is THE SYSTEM built-in
account (one of the many) , you can get at it's properties using
Win32_Account.


Willy.