> I just came up with this recipe to change the default PS1 value to use red > for the user@host part of the prompt and to change the $ character to a #: > > if id | grep -qi 'member of administrators group' > then > export PS1=$(echo "$PS1" | sed -e 's_32_31_' -e 's_\\\$_#_') > fi > > Im not certain the string match on the output of id(1) works everywhere. Is > there a better way to check for admin privileges under Cygwin? You cant > check for UID or EUID == 0, for example, as youd do on a true POSIX system.
Ha! Yes, there is: see https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-02/msg00057.html. The magic test is id -G | grep -qE '\<(544|0)\>' where 544 is the Administrators group, and 0 is the root group in case the old root group entry is present in /etc/group. For example: id -G | grep -qE '\<(544|0)\>' && echo admin || echo user -- 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
