Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <41B4A7D9.3ADA0F94@dessent.net> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 10:41:29 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Environment variables & system privilages References: <41B1A1C4.6020102@ieee.org> <41B305B2.7030805@ieee.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Jason Pearce wrote: > > Thanks. This works well enough. But I take it there is no universal > command to check for system permissions. > The procedure is just try a command that needs system privilages and > watch the exit status. Well, if you really want to check for this you could try comparing the output of "id -u" to 18, the UID of the SYSTEM account. I don't know if the system account's id varies across different versions (eg 98 vs. 2k3), though. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/