Bart wrote:
On 10/28/13, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
For windows there is winutils.iswindowsadmin(), for unix likes there is
fpgeteuid (which should return zero for root).
Also remember unix-style capabilities.
Care to elaborate on that?
You can use the setcap utility to add or remove capab
On 10/28/13, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>> For windows there is winutils.iswindowsadmin(), for unix likes there is
>>> fpgeteuid (which should return zero for root).
>>
>
> Also remember unix-style capabilities.
>
Care to elaborate on that?
Bart
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Bart wrote:
On 10/27/13, Marco van de Voort wrote:
For windows there is winutils.iswindowsadmin(), for unix likes there is
fpgeteuid (which should return zero for root).
Thanks a lot.
Also remember unix-style capabilities.
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On 10/27/13, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> For windows there is winutils.iswindowsadmin(), for unix likes there is
> fpgeteuid (which should return zero for root).
Thanks a lot.
Bart
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In our previous episode, Bart said:
>
> I thought of trying to write to a "protected" location (/etc/something
> on linux, C:\ProgramData\something on Windows), but the problem is
> that Windows virtualizes these calls (it'll end up somewhere lse,
> where your program will never find it again), so
Hi,
In my program I have some functions that must only be enabled if the
program is invoked as root (linux) / administrator (windows).
Is there some cross platform way to detect this?
I thought of trying to write to a "protected" location (/etc/something
on linux, C:\ProgramData\something on Win
