I have a SID of a user account, and I want the SIDs of the groups it belongs to. (C#)

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This has to be obtained from a remote machine. The following query works not for SIDs, but for group and account names.

"SELECT GroupComponent FROM Win32_GroupUser WHERE PartComponent = \"Win32_UserAccount.Domain='" + accountDomain + "',Name='" + accountName + "'\""

The Win32_Group objects it returns come in the forms of strings, and they only have domain and name (even though Win32_Group has a SID property).

I have this sinking feeling I'll have to:

Turn the SID into an account name by querying Win32_SID;
Perform the query above;
Turn each of the resulting group names into SIDs by querying Win32_Group.

PLEASE tell me there's a better way.

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