Check for Admin privileges not working (Windows 10)

[jansorg]

I've tested this on Windows 10 Pro with a local administrator account.

This was shown after I clicked on the "Install and Launch Kite" button in the autocomplete-python setup screen:

Let me know if you need more data to debug this.

[abe33]

Yes, of course, what is the result of running net session in a bash console?

Because that's how we test admin rights:

isAdmin() {
    try {
      // Note that this method can still fail if the server has not been started
      // but it has the merit of being simple and reliable
      // see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4051883/batch-script-how-to-check-for-admin-rights
      // for details
      child_process.execSync('net session');
      return true;
    } catch (e) {
      return false;
}

And the issue here is that it seems all the alternative solutions are way more complex and have way more reasons to fail in the long run than this one. Not being a windows user since more than a decade I'm not really sure what's the best solution is in that case.