In the last episode (Sep 17), Mohsen Alimomeni said: > 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? Try "whoami", or "id -un". Your system may also store the username for you in the USER or LOGNAME environment variables. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
