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With all respect to the enthusiasm, but I think hardcoding this in bash 
is a bad idea. Bash isn't the only type of shell people use, and if you 
build this into the shell, you have to provide a switch to turn the 
non-standard behavior off.
It is much better handled in profiles.
$0.02

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Well, based on the 4.0 sources, there are only a couple places where
> it checks for euid==0, but using a cached value rather than calling
> geteuid() every time.  So I'm looking to see what the cascade effect
> would be of just storing a 0 there when running on Cygwin and the user
> is in the Administrators group.  If that's too disruptive I'll look at
> adding a flag to the same structure, setting it appropriately, and
> testing it instead of the euid.
>
> On 9/5/09, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
>   
>> On 09/04/2009 08:14 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
>>>       
>>>> The ideal way would be patching bash to recognize if the current user has
>>>> root privileges (rather than its current check for just uid==0), so that
>>>> the PS1 escape \$ automatically printed # for privileged and $ for
>>>> normal.
>>>>
>>>> I'll add it to my TODO list, but if someone comes up with a patch first,
>>>> I'd gladly review it.
>>>>         
>>> Got a pointer to latest bash sources?  I tried the savannah cvs
>>> repository and they don't seem to be there anymore.
>>>       
>> You could always use what's available through 'setup.exe'.
>>
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