How to find what user is running a process

[Jeff]

The Process class gives a lot of information. One piece it doesn't seem
to give you though is what user a process is running under (unless I'm
missing something here.) Does anyone have an idea on how to retrieve
this information (by the API perhaps?) I've been trying to google for
an answer, but haven't had any luck.

Thanks,
Jeff

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Jeff,

The Process class gives a lot of information. One piece it doesn't seem
to give you though is what user a process is running under (unless I'm
missing something here.) Does anyone have an idea on how to retrieve this
information (by the API perhaps?)

You can utilize the 'Win32_Process' class and its 'GetOwner' method to
determine domain and user the process is belonging to. The documentation on
'Win32_Process' contains a VBScript sample on how to do that:

Platform SDK: Windows Management Instrumentation -- 'Win32_Process'
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/win32_process.asp>

Samples for VB.NET and C# can be found here:

<URL:http://www.google.to/groups?q=dotnet+Win32_Process+GetOwner+-herfried>