You'll need to get the owner of the running process which should be your 'admin' in this case. If you're using a bash script, you could use "id", which will return information about the user, like groups and uid. id -u returns my userid, id -un returns my username. (GNU Coreutils 6.10) If you're using another script, Python, PHP and PERL have built in functions to obtain the current user. If you are working in C, this might help you. (Disclaimer: I'm not a C programmer) http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Users-and-Groups.html#Users-and-Groups Good Luck ~k On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 11:15 +0430, Mohsen Alimomeni wrote: > 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
