On Aug 18 11:51, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 7:27 AM Jonathon Merz via Cygwin > <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 7:13 PM Martin Wege via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Just an idea: Could the default background color of the Cygwin console > > > be changed from black to grey (or RED) if the terminal has been > > > started with Administrator rights? > > > > > > > Assuming that: > > 1. The Administrators group is called "Administrators" > > 2. There aren't any non-administrative groups with "Administrators" in the > > name > > 3. You're using mintty for your terminal > > > > You can run the following in bash or zsh with the desired RGB values: > > > > if [[ `id -Gn` == *Administrators* ]] > > then > > echo -ne "\e]11;#FFBBEE\a"; > > fi > > > > Looking at the output of /usr/bin/id -a was my first guess too. But > this fails quickly because the names are localized. Seriously MS runs > the Windows group names through the l10n wringer!! So what works on > Windows for Germany will surely fail for Windows for Japan. Thus I am > looking for a more portable solution. > > Maybe the numeric group ids are more 'portable' across the Windows > versions for different countries?
Admin group is always Windows SID 1-5-32-544 and gid 544 in Cygwin, unless somebody overloads the gid values via an /etc/group file. If you want to be really sure, you have to check every numeric gid returned by `id -G' if it resolves to SID 1-5-32-544. You can do this with the getent(1) tool. Corinna -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple