On Feb 5 15:28, Achim Gratz wrote: > J. David Boyd writes: > > This doesn't seem to tell me if my shell has been started with 'Run As > > Administrator', it just tells me if my user is contained in the > > Administrator > > group. > > No, you're not in that group unless you have actual administrator > privileges. > > > I can start a cygwin shell, and start a cygwin shell with run as admin, and > > I > > get the same results from the above command. > > Then you have UAC switched off or the place you're starting the cygwin > shell from already is elevated.
Right. Group 544 is not in a user token of a non-elevated process(*).
Corinna
(*) More exactly, it is in the token, but with the "Deny only" attribute
and missing the "Enabled" attribute. Therefore it will not show up
as part of the token's group list in Cygwin, because Cygwin skips
all non-enabled groups.
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