Root/Administrator privileges from cygwin terminal

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Oct 24 12:22, Anthony Geoghegan wrote:
> >    The only solution I have now is to open a new bash window as administrator.
> >    So is there a way to elevate (or change) privileges from with a bash shell?
> 
> A while ago, I researched a Cygwin equivalent for sudo but that's what
> I ended up doing, myself.
> 
> > 2. Is there any better way to determine that one has Administrator
> >    privileges than to run something like:
> >                 id -G | grep -Eq '<\544\>'
> >    Or:
> >                 [[ `id -G` =~$(echo "\<544\>") ]]
> >
> >         (note the 'echo' is used to get around incompatibilities in
> >         various versions of bash on how word separators are recognize.)
> 
> I use something similar:  [[ $(groups) == *Administrators* ]]
> It's more readable and it works on pretty much every version of Bash.

There's a disadvantage to this approach.  The name of the Administrators
group is localized, for instance "Administratoren" in German.  The RID
544 is universal, though.


Corinna

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