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The NetUserGetInfo function retrieves information about a particular user account on a server.

Security Requirements

No special group membership is required to successfully execute NetUserGetInfo. This is a change from LAN Manager, which required membership in the Administrators or Account Operators local group to call this function at information levels above 0 (except for the user’s own account, which could use level 11).

NET_API_STATUS NetUserGetInfo(

Parameters

servername

Pointer to a Unicode string containing the name of the remote server on which the function is to execute. A NULL pointer or string specifies the local computer.

username

Pointer to a Unicode string containing the name of the user account on which to return information.

level

Specifies one of the following values to return the level of information provided.

Value	Meaning
0	Returns USER_INFO_0 structure pointed to in bufptr.
1	Returns USER_INFO_1 structure pointed to in bufptr.
2	Returns USER_INFO_2 structure pointed to in bufptr.
3	Returns USER_INFO_3 structure pointed to in bufptr.
10	Returns USER_INFO_10 structure pointed to in bufptr.
11	Returns USER_INFO_11 structure pointed to in bufptr.
20	Returns USER_INFO_20 structure pointed to in bufptr.

bufptr

Pointer to the buffer in which the data set with the level parameter is stored. The returned buffer should be deallocated using the NetApiBufferFree function.

Return Values

If the function is successful, it returns NERR_SUCCESS.

If the function fails, the return value is one of the following error codes.

See Also

NetApiBufferFree, NetUserSetInfo, NetUserGetGroups, NetUserEnum