diff --git a/rust/headless-client/src/dns_control/windows.rs b/rust/headless-client/src/dns_control/windows.rs
index f7066c569..9afcd8284 100644
--- a/rust/headless-client/src/dns_control/windows.rs
+++ b/rust/headless-client/src/dns_control/windows.rs
@@ -228,7 +228,9 @@ mod tests {
     fn dns_control() {
         let _guard = firezone_logging::test("debug");
 
-        let rt = tokio::runtime::Runtime::new().unwrap();
+        let rt = tokio::runtime::Builder::new_current_thread()
+            .build()
+            .unwrap();
 
         let mut tun_dev_manager = firezone_bin_shared::TunDeviceManager::new(1280, 1).unwrap(); // Note: num_threads (`1`) is unused on windows.
         let _tun = tun_dev_manager.make_tun().unwrap();
diff --git a/rust/headless-client/src/ipc_service/windows.rs b/rust/headless-client/src/ipc_service/windows.rs
index cd2bbd32f..80c09ac9c 100644
--- a/rust/headless-client/src/ipc_service/windows.rs
+++ b/rust/headless-client/src/ipc_service/windows.rs
@@ -11,10 +11,16 @@ use std::{
     time::Duration,
 };
 use tokio::sync::mpsc;
-use windows::Win32::{
-    Foundation::{CloseHandle, HANDLE},
-    Security::{GetTokenInformation, TokenElevation, TOKEN_ELEVATION, TOKEN_QUERY},
-    System::Threading::{GetCurrentProcess, OpenProcessToken},
+use windows::{
+    core::PWSTR,
+    Win32::{
+        Foundation::{CloseHandle, HANDLE},
+        Security::{
+            GetTokenInformation, LookupAccountSidW, TokenElevation, TokenUser, SID_NAME_USE,
+            TOKEN_ELEVATION, TOKEN_QUERY, TOKEN_USER,
+        },
+        System::Threading::{GetCurrentProcess, OpenProcessToken},
+    },
 };
 use windows_service::{
     service::{
@@ -30,8 +36,14 @@ const SERVICE_TYPE: ServiceType = ServiceType::OWN_PROCESS;
 
 /// Returns true if the IPC service can run properly
 pub(crate) fn elevation_check() -> Result<bool> {
-    let token = ProcessToken::our_process()?;
-    let elevated = token.is_elevated()?;
+    let token = ProcessToken::our_process().context("Failed to get process token")?;
+    let elevated = token
+        .is_elevated()
+        .context("Failed to get elevation status")?;
+    let username = token.username().context("Failed to get username")?;
+
+    tracing::debug!(%username, %elevated);
+
     Ok(elevated)
 }
 
@@ -74,6 +86,57 @@ impl ProcessToken {
         }?;
         Ok(elevation.TokenIsElevated == 1)
     }
+
+    fn username(&self) -> Result<String> {
+        // Normally, the pattern here is to call `GetTokenInformation` with a size of 0 and retrieve the necessary buffer length from the first error.
+        // This doesn't seem to work in this case so we just allocate a hopefully sufficiently large buffer ahead of time.
+        let token_user_sz = 1024;
+        let mut token_user = vec![0u8; token_user_sz as usize];
+        let token_user = token_user.as_mut_ptr() as *mut TOKEN_USER;
+
+        let mut return_sz = 0;
+
+        // Fetch the actual user information.
+        // SAFETY: Docs say nothing about threads or safety <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/securitybaseapi/nf-securitybaseapi-gettokeninformation>
+        unsafe {
+            GetTokenInformation(
+                self.inner,
+                TokenUser,
+                Some(token_user as *mut c_void),
+                token_user_sz,
+                &mut return_sz,
+            )
+        }?;
+
+        let mut name = vec![0u16; 256];
+        let mut domain = vec![0u16; 256];
+        let mut name_size = name.len() as u32;
+        let mut domain_size = domain.len() as u32;
+        let mut sid_type = SID_NAME_USE::default();
+
+        // Convert account ID to human-friendly name.
+
+        // SAFETY: We allocated the buffer.
+        let sid = unsafe { (*token_user).User.Sid };
+
+        // SAFETY: Docs say nothing about threads or safety <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/securitybaseapi/nf-securitybaseapi-gettokeninformation>
+        unsafe {
+            LookupAccountSidW(
+                None,
+                sid,
+                PWSTR::from_raw(name.as_mut_ptr()),
+                &mut name_size,
+                PWSTR::from_raw(domain.as_mut_ptr()),
+                &mut domain_size,
+                &mut sid_type,
+            )
+        }?;
+
+        let name = String::from_utf16_lossy(&name[..name_size as usize]);
+        let domain = String::from_utf16_lossy(&domain[..domain_size as usize]);
+
+        Ok(format!("{name}\\{domain}"))
+    }
 }
 
 impl Drop for ProcessToken {
@@ -289,3 +352,17 @@ async fn service_run_async(
         }
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use super::*;
+
+    #[test]
+    #[expect(clippy::print_stdout, reason = "We want to see the output in the test")]
+    fn get_username_of_current_process() {
+        let process_token = ProcessToken::our_process().unwrap();
+        let username = process_token.username().unwrap(); // If this doesn't panic, we are good.
+
+        println!("Running as user: {username}")
+    }
+}