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Subject: | RE: Set root shell prompt in /etc/profile ? |
Date: | Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:07:22 -0500 |
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Christian Franke wrote on Friday, September 04, 2009 5:00 PM: > When running as member of admin group a Cygwin process normally has > root-like privileges. But this fact cannot be checked with 'geteuid() =3D=3D > 0'. The shell never sets the default root prompt '#', except if the user > is mapped to uid 0 in /etc/passwd. >=20 > Is there a generic way to set '#' via /etc/profile ? >=20 > The attached patch works for me on Cygwin 1.7., but it relies on a > runtime file write check. > (It also requires ACL support in /tmp and would not work on 1.5). >=20 > Is there a better way to do this? >=20 > Christian Perhaps `groups | grep Administrators` ? --=20 Bryan Thrall FlightSafety International bryan DOT thrall AT flightsafety DOT com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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