From: Backwoods BC <completely.and.totally.trash@gmail.com>
To: Martin Wege <martin.l.wege@gmail.com>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Test for Windows Administrator permissions from Cygwin terminal|script?
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 19:18:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKwdsS_Q93_Z0E2cM2iw+DZRvB0DaR6YSi9frod_uh7aoCMxUA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANH4o6OpsvT99AeJ2uTcqyajWQHmffYJqV=RR4HBxoFaveR7sQ@mail.gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-18 2:18 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 [this message]
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
2023-08-24 14:52 ` Bill Stewart
2023-08-24 18:46 ` Bill Stewart
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