On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 16 07:06, Lord Laraby wrote: >> My, major emphasis is recognizing in the Cygwin dll >> or startup code somewhere) that the user has full Administrator rights >> and simply replacing his normal UID with 0 (or that of whomever root >> seems to be by /etc/passwd). Internally (at cygwin.dll level) he/she >> is still the same user, but the desired effects would be that bash and >> others might change his prompt to '#' and that scripts can check for >> admin rights and files he/she created would become owned by UID 0 (or >> the Administrators group).
See, here where I said I want to know if the user is in fact "elevated"? I'm always a member of the Administrators Group (group 544) even when I have no such privileges to "administer" the system. > What is it good for to have uid 0? You want to know if you have admin > rights, so why don't you simply check for the admin group in the > supplementary group list? The uid 0 feature is just a unixy way of indicating that my account has already passed and accepted the UAC and I'm now running as a normal admin (not a puny user). > Here's what I do in my tcsh ~/.cshrc profile to set the prompt: > > id -G | egrep -q '\<544\>' && set prompt = '# || set prompt = '\$ ' > I can set that. But then I'm still fooling myself if I am not running with escalated privileges, I'm no more 'root' than my cat is. > Corinna > Thanks for the advice though. I'll work on something to get what I am seeking. Regards, ~~ LL -- 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
