Hi, I recently bought a new home computer, so I switched from XP to Win81. With Win81 every now and then I need to start cygwin as administrator (right click shortcut or tile, run as administrator) to do things that I can't do as a normal user.
When I run as administrator I change my PS1 from "$" to "#" with these line in ~/.bashrc. if id -Gn | grep -i Administrators > /dev/null then PS1='\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n# ' else PS1='\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ ' fi I don't know if the test can be done a better/easier way, but it works for me on a Dutch Win81. I tested it with both 1.7.30 and a recent AD/SAM snapshot. If more people like this idea, maybe it could included in /etc/bash.bashrc? Regards, Frank -- 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