On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 Christian Franke wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> On Aug 16 07:06, Lord Laraby wrote: >-8 >> >> 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? >> >> Here's what I do in my tcsh ~/.cshrc profile to set the prompt: >> >> id -G | egrep -q '\<544\>' && set prompt = '# || set prompt = '\$ ' >> >> > > I use this simple check which does not depend on /etc/group contents: > > test -r /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SECURITY && PS1='# ' || PS1='$ ' > > Relies on the fact that Cygwin (unlike most non-Cygwin programs) enables > SeBackupPrivilege if available. > > See also: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-02/msg00806.html > > Christian
I'll give that a go as a start. But, I would still like to see by Cygwin uid shown as 0 when I am elevated. Because it's the same as the windows equivalent of su. 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
