In a script, how do you access your regular username when you're executing as root?
In antiX Linux as root, entering "logname" gives me my regular username.
in LMDE as root, entering "logname" gives me "logname: no login name". How do I correct this?
The logname command
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swiftlinuxcreator
The logname command
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Pilosopong Tasyo
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Re: The logname command
Did you mean perform a command as another user? If this is the case you can use sudo -u.swiftlinuxcreator wrote:...access your regular username when you're executing as root?
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Re: The logname command
He/she meant that while being su-ed to root you can execute the command "logname" to display the username of the user you're su-ing withPilosopong Tasyo wrote:Did you mean perform a command as another user? If this is the case you can use sudo -u.
@swift, it might be a distro-issue? It works fine on my RHEL6-laptop, not my Mint-netbook.
This topic might explain it fairly well I think? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-28 ... art-0.html
Basically Debian/Ubuntu/Mint logs sessions (usernames) in a different location than where logname is looking. The solution posted there is no longer valid though, my Linux Mint 11 doesn't even have an inittab anymore... :S
However, in directory /etc/init, I do see tty[1-6].conf, which hold relating data.
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