Jason Pearce wrote: > > Thanks. This works well enough. But I take it there is no universal > command to check for system permissions. > The procedure is just try a command that needs system privilages and > watch the exit status.
Well, if you really want to check for this you could try comparing the output of "id -u" to 18, the UID of the SYSTEM account. I don't know if the system account's id varies across different versions (eg 98 vs. 2k3), though. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
