WindowsAccountType Enumeration

 

Specifies the type of Windows account used.

Namespace:   System.Security.Principal
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

[<SerializableAttribute>]
[<ComVisibleAttribute(true)>]
type WindowsAccountType

Member nameDescription
Anonymous

An anonymous account.

Guest

A Windows guest account.

Normal

A standard user account.

System

A Windows system account.

The WindowsAccountType enumeration is used by the WindowsIdentity class.

The following example shows how to use the WindowsIdentity constructor to create a new instance of the WindowsIdentity class for the user represented by the specified Windows account token, the specified authentication type, and the specified Windows account type. This code example is part of a larger example provided for the WindowsIdentity class.

No code example is currently available or this language may not be supported.

.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
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