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Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:28:02 +0100
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David Sastre Medina wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 06:11:30PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
>> This is an updated version of:
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-04/msg00020.html
>> Uses the detection method suggested here:
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-04/msg00372.html
>>
>> Tested with bash, dash, mksh, posh, and zsh (with symlink
>> /etc/zprofile ->  profile) on cygwin 1.7.11-1 and Win7 x64.
> I've revisited this idea several times, with the purpose of adding
> /usr/sbin to the PATH and coloring the prompt differently (red?) for admins.

Makes sense. Please also include the '#' as the very old & very well 
known root prompt.

A Cygwin shell run as admin has more *effective* rights than a Windows 
console run admin. So there should be a "be careful" sign.


> I'll see if I can come up with some variation on your patch that does
> all this.
>

Thanks,
Christian


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