diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8a2b6e4116..cc594b6356 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1791,6 +1791,16 @@ version = "2.5.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "879d54834c8c76457ef4293a689b2a8c59b076067ad77b15efafbb05f92a592b"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "is-root"
+version = "0.1.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "04a4202a60e86f1c9702706bb42270dadd333f2db7810157563c86f17af3c873"
+dependencies = [
+ "users 0.10.0",
+ "winapi 0.3.9",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "is_ci"
 version = "1.1.1"
@@ -2560,6 +2570,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "htmlescape",
  "ical",
  "indexmap",
+ "is-root",
  "itertools",
  "lazy_static",
  "log",
@@ -2614,7 +2625,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "umask",
  "unicode-segmentation",
  "url",
- "users",
+ "users 0.11.0",
  "uuid",
  "wax",
  "which",
@@ -4973,6 +4984,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "percent-encoding",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "users"
+version = "0.10.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "aa4227e95324a443c9fcb06e03d4d85e91aabe9a5a02aa818688b6918b6af486"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "log",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "users"
 version = "0.11.0"
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml b/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
index a09961d2c9..2b347f8816 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ htmlescape = "0.3.1"
 ical = "0.7.0"
 indexmap = { version="1.7", features=["serde-1"] }
 Inflector = "0.11"
+is-root = "0.1.2"
 itertools = "0.10.0"
 lazy_static = "1.4.0"
 log = "0.4.14"
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/src/default_context.rs b/crates/nu-command/src/default_context.rs
index 4877a801d5..3662f7e256 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/src/default_context.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-command/src/default_context.rs
@@ -382,6 +382,7 @@ pub fn create_default_context(cwd: impl AsRef<Path>) -> EngineState {
         // Experimental
         bind_command! {
             ViewSource,
+            IsAdmin,
         };
 
         // Deprecated
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/src/experimental/is_admin.rs b/crates/nu-command/src/experimental/is_admin.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d397ac35f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/nu-command/src/experimental/is_admin.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+use is_root::is_root;
+use nu_protocol::ast::Call;
+use nu_protocol::engine::{Command, EngineState, Stack};
+use nu_protocol::{Category, Example, IntoPipelineData, PipelineData, Signature, Span, Value};
+
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct IsAdmin;
+
+impl Command for IsAdmin {
+    fn name(&self) -> &str {
+        "is-admin"
+    }
+
+    fn usage(&self) -> &str {
+        "Check if nushell is running with administrator or root privileges"
+    }
+
+    fn signature(&self) -> nu_protocol::Signature {
+        Signature::build("is-admin").category(Category::Core)
+    }
+
+    fn run(
+        &self,
+        _engine_state: &EngineState,
+        _stack: &mut Stack,
+        call: &Call,
+        _input: PipelineData,
+    ) -> Result<nu_protocol::PipelineData, nu_protocol::ShellError> {
+        Ok(Value::Bool {
+            val: is_root(),
+            span: call.head,
+        }
+        .into_pipeline_data())
+    }
+
+    fn examples(&self) -> Vec<Example> {
+        vec![
+            Example {
+                description: "Echo 'iamroot' if nushell is running with admin/root privileges, and 'iamnotroot' if not.",
+                example: r#"if is-admin { echo "iamroot" } else { echo "iamnotroot" }"#,
+                result: Some(Value::String {
+                    val: "iamnotroot".to_string(),
+                    span: Span::test_data(),
+                }),
+            },
+        ]
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/src/experimental/mod.rs b/crates/nu-command/src/experimental/mod.rs
index 506c7e873b..b912a315a2 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/src/experimental/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-command/src/experimental/mod.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+mod is_admin;
 mod view_source;
 
+pub use is_admin::IsAdmin;
 pub use view_source::ViewSource;