> The only solution I have now is to open a new bash window as administrator. > So is there a way to elevate (or change) privileges from with a bash shell?
A while ago, I researched a Cygwin equivalent for sudo but that's what I ended up doing, myself. > 2. Is there any better way to determine that one has Administrator > privileges than to run something like: > id -G | grep -Eq '<\544\>' > Or: > [[ `id -G` =~$(echo "\<544\>") ]] > > (note the 'echo' is used to get around incompatibilities in > various versions of bash on how word separators are recognize.) I use something similar: [[ $(groups) == *Administrators* ]] It's more readable and it works on pretty much every version of Bash. For POSIX compatibility, you could probably use something like: case $(groups) in *Administrators*) echo Member of Administrators group;; *) echo Not a member of Administrators group;; esac This approach has worked well enough for me in the past but I don't do anything too unusual other than stopping / starting Windows services. Regards, Anthony Geoghegan -- 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
