From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] base-files-4.2-1: Change prompt if running with admin rights
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 01:50:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1187249515.20140410053930@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877g6ys69r.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
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 (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 10.04.2014, <04:31>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-10 1:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-09 17:15 Christian Franke
2014-04-09 18:32 ` Achim Gratz
2014-04-09 21:51 ` Christian Franke
2014-04-10 8:11 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-04-10 15:36 ` Achim Gratz
2014-04-10 15:57 ` Christian Franke
2014-04-10 1:50 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2014-04-11 7:20 ` Thomas Wolff
2014-04-11 20:08 ` Christian Franke
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