On Monday, 16 June 2014, 12:25, Frank Fesevur <f...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hi, > > I recently bought a new home computer, so I switched from XP to Win81. > With Win81 every now and then I need to start cygwin as administrator > (right click shortcut or tile, run as administrator) to do things that > I can't do as a normal user. > > When I run as administrator I change my PS1 from "$" to "#" with these > line in ~/.bashrc. > > if id -Gn | grep -i Administrators > /dev/null > then > PS1='\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n# ' > else > PS1='\[\e]0;\w\a\]\n\[\e[32m\]\u@\h \[\e[33m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\n\$ ' > fi > > I don't know if the test can be done a better/easier way, but it works > for me on a Dutch Win81. I tested it with both 1.7.30 and a recent > AD/SAM snapshot. > > If more people like this idea, maybe it could included in /etc/bash.bashrc? > > Regards, > Frank Personally I use a test like: if [ -w /etc ] for this, which works provided a write ACL has not been added for ordinary users on the directory \cygwin\etc. Administrators have write access to this directory. Bash supports regular expressions, so if [[ `id` =~ Administrators ]] is a shorter test equivalent to your example. -- 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
