In the function below, in this line I use the language-specific name "Users":
GroupPrincipal group = GroupPrincipal.FindByIdentity(context, "Users");
How I can do it language-specific aware?.
I mean that for example, in my language, Spanish, the group name is "Usuarios", so the function will throw an exception because the english name is not found.
I would liketo be able to add the user to Administrador, standard users, and guests, without worrying about the machine current culture language. Is it possibly?.
The function:
public static bool CreateLocalWindowsAccount(string username, string password, string displayName, string description, bool canChangePwd, bool pwdExpires)
{
try
{
PrincipalContext context = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Machine);
UserPrincipal user = new UserPrincipal(context);
user.SetPassword(password);
user.DisplayName = displayName;
user.Name = username;
user.Description = description;
user.UserCannotChangePassword = canChangePwd;
user.PasswordNeverExpires = pwdExpires;
user.Save();
//now add user to "Users" group so it displays in Control Panel
GroupPrincipal group = GroupPrincipal.FindByIdentity(context, "Users");
group.Members.Add(user);
group.Save();
return true;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
LogMessageToFile("error msg" + ex.Message);
return false;
}
}
You can use a well-known SID to specify the group you want to retrieve. For the Users
group the SID is S-1-5-32-545
but by using the WellKnownSidType
enum you can avoid putting the actual SID into your code:
var sid = new SecurityIdentifier(WellKnownSidType.BuiltinUsersSid, null);
var principal = GroupPrincipal.FindByIdentity(context, IdentityType.Sid, sid.Value);