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Subject: Test for Windows Administrator permissions from Cygwin
 terminal|script?
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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.

Thanks,
Martin

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