Change PS1 when running as administrator

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 16.06.2014 22:04, schrieb Frank Fesevur:
> 2014-06-16 21:06 GMT+02:00 Achim Gratz:
>> Frank Fesevur writes:
>>> When I run as administrator I change my PS1 from "$" to "#" with these
>>> line in ~/.bashrc.
>>>
>>> if id -Gn | grep -i Administrators > /dev/null
>> If anything I'd check for membership in group 544.  "Administrators"
>> surely is one of these strings that gets localized depending on the
>> phase of the moon or something.  I can't look right now, but I'm pretty
>> sure it says "Administratoren" in a german Windows version.
> On all my Dutch Windows all group names are localized apart from
> 544/Administrators.
I can confirm it is localized in German Windows (as I had been told 
myself when I proposed the same idea here 2 months ago:) ).
> # id
> uid=1000(Frank) gid=513(Geen)
> groups=513(Geen),0(root),544(Administrators),545(Gebruikers)
>
> But I agree checking the numeric value is better.
As Corinna had said. Yet, I'd like to check official documentation to 
confirm "544" is a constant for this purpose.
Other suggestions had been discussed (like checking something in 
/proc/something...).
Thomas

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