Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Message-ID: <41B4A7D9.3ADA0F94@dessent.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 10:41:29 -0800
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
Organization: My own little world...
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Environment variables & system privilages
References: <41B1A1C4 DOT 6020102 AT ieee DOT org> <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 61 DOT 0412041531410 DOT 3217 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> <41B305B2 DOT 7030805 AT ieee DOT org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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/