Greetings, Achim Gratz! > Christian Franke writes: >> Attached is an updated version of: >> https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00806.html
> I'll put this on hold until the AD integration has landed in Cygwin > (which will require some larger changes anyway). > Generally I'd prefer to move such things that depend on personal > preferences like setting up prompts into profile.d where they are easier > to change and maintain independently from core system functionality. > Using the registry to check for administrative privileges is clever, But indirect. It does not guarantee, that a user have administrator rights, only that it has access to the specified registry key. > however I'm wondering why we shouldn't simply check via id (that's what > I'm doing personally at the moment). Unless there's a way to ask "if we're a part of <certain group>" or more direct questions, it would involve much tinkering. And I agree, that all tinkering needs to go into personal profile. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@yandex.ru) 10.04.2014, <04:31> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
