someone at kosowsky dot org wrote:
2. Is there any better way to determine that one has Administrator privileges than to run something like: id -G | grep -Eq '<\544\>' Or: [[ `id -G` =~$(echo "\<544\>") ]](note the 'echo' is used to get around incompatibilities in various versions of bash on how word separators are recognize.)
This should work with any shell: case " `id -G` " in *\ 544\ *) true;; *) false;; esac I use this alternative approach to set a root prompt in /etc/profile: [ -r /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SECURITY ] Instead of admin group membership this checks for SeBackupPrivilege. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00806.html Christian -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
