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Visual Basic .NET definition

Declare Function AllocateAndInitializeSid Lib "advapi32.dll" (ByRef pIdentifierAuthority As SID_IDENTIFIER_AUTHORITY, ByVal nSubAuthorityCount As Byte, ByVal nSubAuthority0 As Integer, ByVal nSubAuthority1 As Integer, ByVal nSubAuthority2 As Integer, ByVal nSubAuthority3 As Integer, ByVal nSubAuthority4 As Integer, ByVal nSubAuthority5 As Integer, ByVal nSubAuthority6 As Integer, ByVal nSubAuthority7 As Integer, ByRef lpPSid As Integer) As Integer

C# definition

[DllImport("advapi32.dll")] public static extern int AllocateAndInitializeSid(ref SID_IDENTIFIER_AUTHORITY pIdentifierAuthority, byte nSubAuthorityCount, int nSubAuthority0, int nSubAuthority1, int nSubAuthority2, int nSubAuthority3, int nSubAuthority4, int nSubAuthority5, int nSubAuthority6, int nSubAuthority7, ref int lpPSid)

Description

The AllocateAndInitializeSid function allocates and initializes a security identifier (SID) with up to eight subauthorities.

Parameters

ˇ pIdentifierAuthority [in] Pointer to a SID_IDENTIFIER_AUTHORITY structure, giving the top-level identifier authority value to set in the SID. ˇ nSubAuthorityCount [in] Specifies the number of subauthorities to place in the SID. This parameter also identifies how many of the subauthority parameters have meaningful values. This parameter must contain a value from 1 to 8. For example, a value of 3 indicates that the subauthority values specified by the dwSubAuthority0, dwSubAuthority1, and dwSubAuthority2 parameters have meaningful values and to ignore the remainder. ˇ dwSubAuthority0 [in] Subauthority value to place in the SID. ˇ dwSubAuthority1 [in] Subauthority value to place in the SID. ˇ dwSubAuthority2 [in] Subauthority value to place in the SID. ˇ dwSubAuthority3 [in] Subauthority value to place in the SID. ˇ dwSubAuthority4 [in] Subauthority value to place in the SID. ˇ dwSubAuthority5 [in] Subauthority value to place in the SID. ˇ dwSubAuthority6 [in] Subauthority value to place in the SID. ˇ dwSubAuthority7 [in] Subauthority value to place in the SID. ˇ pSid [out] Pointer to a variable that receives the pointer to the allocated and initialized SID structure.

Further Information:

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