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Subject:	Re: Test for Windows Administrator permissions from Cygwin
	terminal|script?
Date:	Thu, 24 Aug 2023 09:01:04 -0400
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> Hello,
> 
> How can I find out whether the current Cygwin terminal has
> Administrator rights? I want to safeguard our admin scripts with a
> simple test and bail out with an error if someone wants to do admin
> stuff (say: regtool) without admin privileges.

https://superuser.com/questions/660191/how-to-check-if-cygwin-mintty-bash-is-run-as-administrator/874615#874615


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