Root/Administrator privileges from cygwin terminal
Christian Franke
Christian.Franke@t-online.de
Thu Oct 24 17:11:00 GMT 2013
someone at kosowsky dot org wrote:
> 2. Is there any better way to determine that one has Administrator
> privileges than to run something like:
> id -G | grep -Eq '<\544\>'
> Or:
> [[ `id -G` =~$(echo "\<544\>") ]]
>
> (note the 'echo' is used to get around incompatibilities in
> various versions of bash on how word separators are recognize.)
This should work with any shell:
case " `id -G` " in *\ 544\ *) true;; *) false;; esac
I use this alternative approach to set a root prompt in /etc/profile:
[ -r /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SECURITY ]
Instead of admin group membership this checks for SeBackupPrivilege.
See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00806.html
Christian
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