On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 7:01 PM Martin Wege via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > How can I find out whether the current Cygwin terminal has > Administrator rights? I want to safeguard our admin scripts with a > simple test and bail out with an error if someone wants to do admin > stuff (say: regtool) without admin privileges. > > Thanks, > Martin
I don't know if this is the official method, but it works for me: ##### Shell Options # Elevated privilege windows have $SESSIONNAME set if [ "$SESSIONNAME" == "" ] ;then printf -v adminPmt '[\u2022Admin\u2022] ' else export adminPmt="" fi -- 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
