Display a warning dialog if user runs program elevated (#6063)

src/openrct2/Context.cpp

@@ -199,6 +199,19 @@ namespace OpenRCT2
                 config_save_default();
             }
 
+            if (platform_process_is_elevated())
+            {
+                std::string elevationWarning = "It is not recommended to run OpenRCT2 with elevated permissions.";
+                if (gOpenRCT2Headless)
+                {
+                    Console::Error::WriteLine(elevationWarning.c_str());
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    _uiContext->ShowMessageBox(elevationWarning);
+                }
+            }
+
             if (!rct2_init_directories())
             {
                 return false;

src/openrct2/platform/platform.h

@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ uint16 platform_get_locale_language();
 uint8 platform_get_locale_measurement_format();
 uint8 platform_get_locale_temperature_format();
 uint8 platform_get_locale_date_format();
+bool platform_process_is_elevated();
 
 #ifndef NO_TTF
 bool platform_get_font_path(TTFFontDescriptor *font, utf8 *buffer, size_t size);

src/openrct2/platform/posix.c

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #include <time.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
 #include "../config/Config.h"
 #include "../localisation/date.h"
 #include "../localisation/language.h"
@@ -836,4 +837,9 @@ utf8* platform_get_username() {
     }
 }
 
+bool platform_process_is_elevated()
+{
+   return (geteuid() == 0);
+}
+
 #endif

src/openrct2/platform/windows.c

@@ -816,6 +816,23 @@ utf8* platform_get_username()
     return username;
 }
 
+bool platform_process_is_elevated()
+{
+    BOOL isElevated = FALSE;
+    HANDLE hToken = NULL;
+    if (OpenProcessToken(GetCurrentProcess(), TOKEN_QUERY, &hToken)) {
+        TOKEN_ELEVATION Elevation;
+        DWORD tokenSize = sizeof(TOKEN_ELEVATION);
+        if (GetTokenInformation(hToken, TokenElevation, &Elevation, sizeof(Elevation), &tokenSize)) {
+            isElevated = Elevation.TokenIsElevated;
+        }
+    }
+    if (hToken) {
+        CloseHandle(hToken);
+    }
+    return isElevated;
+}
+
 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 // File association setup
 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////