Retrieving User/Role Privileges - How ?

Hi,

I need to read and subsequently modify the privileges (rights) of a certain SQL Server user / role from within a Visual Basic Program.

Modifying seems to be easy using standard statements like GRANT/REVOKE. But what about reading all the rights a user has ?

I have researched SQL-DMO, but didn't find what I'm looking for.

Any idea ?

MikeTry the next command in query analyzer
sp_helprotect null, 'username' to get the rights
and
sp_helpuser to get the roles of an usersql

Retrieving user defined Role name

Is there a System stored procedure that gives me the Role in which a user is in. For example I execute this procedure, give the user as parameter an that gives me back the Role the user is in. It has to be said that this is a user defined role, I got three of them, HR, Employee, Approver.

Greetings,
GodofredoIs it not clear? I just want to retrieve a user defined Role

Greets,
geoff|||I'd use sp_helpuser (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/tsqlref/ts_sp_help_45o2.asp).

-PatP