Christian Franke wrote on Friday, September 04, 2009 5:00 PM: > When running as member of admin group a Cygwin process normally has > root-like privileges. But this fact cannot be checked with 'geteuid() == > 0'. The shell never sets the default root prompt '#', except if the user > is mapped to uid 0 in /etc/passwd. > > Is there a generic way to set '#' via /etc/profile ? > > The attached patch works for me on Cygwin 1.7., but it relies on a > runtime file write check. > (It also requires ACL support in /tmp and would not work on 1.5). > > Is there a better way to do this? > > Christian
Perhaps `groups | grep Administrators` ? -- Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International bryan.thr...@flightsafety.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
