From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [116.202.254.214]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 99F413858C53 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2023 13:01:15 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org 99F413858C53 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=fail (p=reject dis=none) header.from=epa.gov Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=m.gmane-mx.org Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qZ9xa-0006I0-6c for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 24 Aug 2023 15:01:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew Schulman Subject: Re: Test for Windows Administrator permissions from Cygwin terminal|script? Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2023 09:01:04 -0400 Message-ID: <74leei1djvvgnbtvrkpctgnp9jc2kqtsjf@4ax.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 X-Archive: encrypt X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3032.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: > 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