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From: Andrew Schulman <schulman.andrew@epa.gov>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Test for Windows Administrator permissions from Cygwin terminal|script?
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 09:01:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <74leei1djvvgnbtvrkpctgnp9jc2kqtsjf@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANH4o6OpsvT99AeJ2uTcqyajWQHmffYJqV=RR4HBxoFaveR7sQ@mail.gmail.com>

> Hello,
> 
> 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.

https://superuser.com/questions/660191/how-to-check-if-cygwin-mintty-bash-is-run-as-administrator/874615#874615


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-08-24 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-18  2:01 Martin Wege
2023-08-18  2:18 ` Backwoods BC
2023-08-18  8:49   ` Mark Geisert
2023-08-18  8:59     ` Mark Geisert
2023-08-18 22:00 ` Doug Henderson
2023-08-19  8:14 ` ASSI
2023-08-19 17:33   ` Bill Stewart
2023-08-24 16:24   ` Martin Wege
2023-08-25  9:42     ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-08-24 13:01 ` Andrew Schulman [this message]
2023-08-24 14:52   ` Bill Stewart
2023-08-24 18:46     ` Bill Stewart

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