Is there a command to check if Git Bash is opened in Administrator mode?

Question

Let's say you opened a Git Bash console and used it for a time but you forgot if you opened it as Administrator or not.

Is there a way to check this in the current console, without closing and opening it again?

Answer 1

Adapted from the thread on how to check for admin rights, run the following:

if [[ $(sfc 2>&1 | tr -d '\0') =~ SCANNOW ]]; then echo Administrator; else echo $USERNAME; fi

If you are running git-bash as Administrator, it will print Administrator, otherwise it will print your username.

Answer 2

My PS1 environmental variable looks like this:

\[\033]0;$TITLEPREFIX:$PWD\007\]\n\[\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[35m\]$MSYSTEM \[\033[33m\]\w\[\033[36m\]`__git_ps1`\[\033[0m\]\n$

So off the back of the answer from @daveloyall. I've put this into my .bash_profile

if [[ $(sfc 2>&1 | tr -d '\0') =~ SCANNOW ]]; then
    export TITLEPREFIX='ADMIN' 
fi

This then prefixes the window title with ADMIN if you've opened git-bash as administrator.

Answer 3

A reliable way to check if git-bash on Windows is running as admin privilege:

#!/bin/bash

net session 1>/dev/null 2>&1 || printf >&2 "error: please run this script as administrator.\n"

If you want to take into consideration that there might be a Windows which has no net command (I doubt that), you can check for it:

#!/bin/bash

if type -fq net >/dev/null
then
    net session 1>/dev/null 2>&1 || printf >&2 "error: please run this script as administrator.\n"
fi

Answer 4

You can try a linux command, like that:

whoami

This will return your system username

or windows command:

ECHO %USERNAME%

Answer 5

Yes, You can check the current username by using this command:

git config user.name

This will return the username and you can know if it is the Administrator.