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Checks if the process is running with elevated privileges.

native-is-elevated

NPM

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.

Install

$ npm install --save native-is-elevated

Usage

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