Removing a Credential

The following code example:

• Calls GetCurrentUserIdentity to retrieve a WINBIO_IDENTITY object for the current user. GetCurrentUserIdentity is a helper function and is not part of the Windows Biometric Framework.
• Calls WinBioRemoveCredential to delete the credentials from the store.

To compile this function link to the Winbio.lib static library and include the following header files:

• Windows.h
• Stdio.h
• Conio.h
• Winbio.h

HRESULT RemoveCredential()
{
    HRESULT hr = S_OK;
    WINBIO_IDENTITY identity;

    // Find the identity of the user.
    wprintf_s(L"\n Finding user identity.\n");
    hr = GetCurrentUserIdentity( &identity );
    if (FAILED(hr))
    {
        wprintf(L"\n User identity not found. hr = 0x%x\n", hr);
        goto e_Exit;
    }

    // Remove the user credentials.
    hr = WinBioRemoveCredential(identity, WINBIO_CREDENTIAL_PASSWORD);
    if (FAILED(hr)) 
    {
        wprintf(L"\n WinBioRemoveCredential failed. hr = 0x%x\n", hr);
        goto e_Exit;
    }

    wprintf_s(L"\n User credentials successfully removed.\n");

e_Exit:

    wprintf_s(L"\n Press any key to exit...");
    _getch();

    return hr;
}

//------------------------------------------------------------------------
// The following function retrieves the identity of the current user.
// This is a helper function and is not part of the Windows Biometric
// Framework API.
//
HRESULT GetCurrentUserIdentity(__inout PWINBIO_IDENTITY Identity)
{
    // Declare variables.
    HRESULT hr = S_OK;
    HANDLE tokenHandle = NULL;
    DWORD bytesReturned = 0;
    struct{
        TOKEN_USER tokenUser;
        BYTE buffer[SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE];
    } tokenInfoBuffer;

    // Zero the input identity and specify the type.
    ZeroMemory( Identity, sizeof(WINBIO_IDENTITY));
    Identity->Type = WINBIO_ID_TYPE_NULL;

    // Open the access token associated with the
    // current process
    if (!OpenProcessToken(
            GetCurrentProcess(),            // Process handle
            TOKEN_READ,                     // Read access only
            &tokenHandle))                  // Access token handle
    {
        DWORD win32Status = GetLastError();
        wprintf_s(L"Cannot open token handle: %d\n", win32Status);
        hr = HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(win32Status);
        goto e_Exit;
    }

    // Zero the tokenInfoBuffer structure.
    ZeroMemory(&tokenInfoBuffer, sizeof(tokenInfoBuffer));

    // Retrieve information about the access token. In this case,
    // retrieve a SID.
    if (!GetTokenInformation(
            tokenHandle,                    // Access token handle
            TokenUser,                      // User for the token
            &tokenInfoBuffer.tokenUser,     // Buffer to fill
            sizeof(tokenInfoBuffer),        // Size of the buffer
            &bytesReturned))                // Size needed
    {
        DWORD win32Status = GetLastError();
        wprintf_s(L"Cannot query token information: %d\n", win32Status);
        hr = HRESULT_FROM_WIN32(win32Status);
        goto e_Exit;
    }

    // Copy the SID from the tokenInfoBuffer structure to the
    // WINBIO_IDENTITY structure. 
    CopySid(
        SECURITY_MAX_SID_SIZE,
        Identity->Value.AccountSid.Data,
        tokenInfoBuffer.tokenUser.User.Sid
        );

    // Specify the size of the SID and assign WINBIO_ID_TYPE_SID
    // to the type member of the WINBIO_IDENTITY structure.
    Identity->Value.AccountSid.Size = GetLengthSid(tokenInfoBuffer.tokenUser.User.Sid);
    Identity->Type = WINBIO_ID_TYPE_SID;

e_Exit:

    if (tokenHandle != NULL)
    {
        CloseHandle(tokenHandle);
    }

    return hr;
}