https://github.com/arkon/native-is-elevated

Checks if the process is running with elevated privileges.
https://github.com/arkon/native-is-elevated

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Checks if the process is running with elevated privileges.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/arkon/native-is-elevated
• Owner: arkon
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-03-27T23:58:57.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-04-16T23:00:35.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-18T06:47:44.603Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: node-module, nodejs
• Language: C++
• Homepage:
• Size: 156 KB
• Stars: 27
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# native-is-elevated

[![NPM](https://nodei.co/npm/native-is-elevated.png?compact=true)](https://nodei.co/npm/native-is-elevated)

Checks if the process is running with elevated privileges (i.e., as root on Unix systems or Administrator on Windows).

Basically just a [native version](https://nodejs.org/api/addons.html) of [is-elevated](https://github.com/sindresorhus/is-elevated) that doesn't spawn a new process on Windows.

## Install

```

$ npm install --save native-is-elevated

```

## Usage

```js

const isElevated = require('native-is-elevated')();  // boolean value

```