Re: how to determine if a shell is running as Administrator?

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Feb  5 04:43, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> What's a reliable and efficient way to determine programmatically if the shell
> that's running has elevated privileges?
> 
> Or if you prefer, how can I tell if the shell was started with "Run as
> administrator"?

id -G | grep -qE '\<544\>' && echo admin || echo luser

> 2. Parse the output of groups or id -G.  I can't find any reliable way to do
> this.  For example on my host, when I start a shell with "Run as administrator",
> the new group I get isn't 544 (Administrators).  It's 114 (Local account and
> member of Administrators group).  Is that at all portable or reliable?

Huh?  There is no such group in Windows.  Where does it come from?
This should always work even with old /etc/group files:

  id -G | grep -qE '\<544\>|\<0\>' && echo admin || echo luser


Corinna

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