ignore required user on MS windows

jobhelper.sh

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # helper script to share functions for parsing and handlinmg backup jobs
 #
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# ah - Axel Hahn <axel.hahn@iml.unibe.ch>
+# ah - Axel Hahn <axel.hahn@unibe.ch>
 # ds - Daniel Schueler <daniel.schueler@iml.unibe.ch>
 #
 # 2016-11-10  ah,ds  v1.0
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 # 2017-02-16  ah,ds  v1.2  added storage helper function
 # 2018-02-13  ah,ds  v1.3  detect samba shares based on a flag
 # 2022-10-07  ah     v1.4  unescape regex with space to prevent "grep: warning: stray \ before white space"
+# 2023-03-16  ah     v1.5  ignore required user on MS windows
 # ================================================================================
 
 
@@ -375,9 +376,14 @@ function j_requireProcess(){
 
 # ------------------------------------------------------------
 # check if it was startet with a given user
+# This is skipped if MS windows was detected with "mingw".
 # param  string  username, i.e. root
 # ------------------------------------------------------------
 function j_requireUser(){
+  # TODO: this is an incomplete check. Check more strings eg. cygwin
+  if uname | grep -iE "mingw" >/dev/null; then
+    return 0
+  fi  
   sUser=$(id | cut -f 2 -d "(" | cut -f 1 -d ")")
   if [[ "$sUser" != "$1" ]]; then
     >&2 echo "ERROR: user $1 is reqired."