native-is-elevated
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Native module for checking if the process is being run with elevated privileges
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 of is-elevated that doesn't spawn a new process on Windows.
$ npm install --save native-is-elevated
const isElevated = require('native-is-elevated')(); // boolean value
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Native module for checking if the process is being run with elevated privileges
We found that native-is-elevated demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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