Backwoods BC via Cygwin wrote:
On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 7:01 PM Martin Wege via Cygwin
<cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
How can I find out whether the current Cygwin terminal has
Administrator rights? I want to safeguard our admin scripts with a
simple test and bail out with an error if someone wants to do admin
stuff (say: regtool) without admin privileges.
Thanks,
Martin
I don't know if this is the official method, but it works for me:
##### Shell Options
# Elevated privilege windows have $SESSIONNAME set
if [ "$SESSIONNAME" == "" ] ;then
printf -v adminPmt '[\u2022Admin\u2022] '
else
export adminPmt=""
fi
I see the opposite on my machine. Admin window has empty $SESSIONNAME, non-Admin
window has "Console".
What I do locally is check the output of the 'id' command. If group
544(Administrators) is present, that's a window with Admin rights. Inside .bashrc
I have a simple grep test on the output of 'id' to set PS1 (shell prompt)
appropriately.
..mark
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