function ok = is_admin()

% com.sun.security.auth.module.NTSystem().getGroupIDs();
% Administrator group SID (S-1-5-32-544) is not an appropriate check .getGroupIDs because it
% only tells if a user is *allowed* to run as admin, not if they are currently running as admin.


try
  unixSystem = javaObject('com.sun.security.auth.module.UnixSystem');
  ok = unixSystem.getUid() == 0;
catch e
  javaException(e)
  ok = logical([]);
end

end

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