On Feb 5 09:39, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > > > > Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > What's a reliable and efficient way to determine programmatically if the > > > shell> that's running has elevated privileges? > > > > > Or if you prefer, how can I tell if the shell was started with "Run as > > > administrator"? > > > > If you search the mailing list archive for "Change PS1 when running as > > administrator" there are several suggested ways. > > Thanks. Consensus there is to look for group ID 544, although as the other > thread here shows, group 0 or 114 can also show it.
Preferredly you remove the "root" group from /etc/group or, even better, you remove /etc/group ;) Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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