Hi, On Tue, Sep 09, 2025 at 01:23:23PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > > Interesting. So does "grep foo /etc/passwd" turn up anything? > > Yes, it finds the expected user (which is not actually foo). > > [17:22 gw01 dvl ~] % grep foo /etc/passwd > foo:*:1002:1002:User &:/usr/home/foo:/bin/sh > > [17:22 gw01 dvl ~] % grep foo /etc/group > wheel:*:0:root,dvl,foo > foo:*:1002:
ok... so anything that ended up in the environment which might prompt
"logger" to use that?
Logger source says
if (tag == NULL)
tag = getlogin();
and that is documented as
The getlogin() routine returns the login name of the user associated with
the current session, as previously set by setlogin(). The name is
normally associated with a login shell at the time a session is created,
and is inherited by all processes descended from the login shell. (This
is true even if some of those processes assume another user ID, for
example when su(1) is used).
so I guess it might be the user that started "sudo openvpn".
gert
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