Do you have whoami available? If not try creating a temp file and then using ls to examine who owns it. Then delete it when you're done. > -----Original Message----- > From: listbounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:listbounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mohsen Alimomeni > Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 2:45 AM > To: secureshell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: get logged in username > > Hi, > > How can I get the logged in username under remote command execution? I > am using openssh version 4.0 under fedora core 4. > > more explanation: > when I do "ssh admin@host", I can get the username "admin", by the > command "who -m", since there is tty which the username is assigned to > it. But suppose I want to execute a remote command "ssh admin@host > myprog", I want to get the username inside the myprog. The command > "who -m", doesn't work because no tty is created for the user. > How can I get the username in this case? > > Regards, > -- > __ \ /_\\_-//_ Mohsen Alimomeni >
