\begin{Steve Kowalik}
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 01:35:25AM +1000, Peter Hardy uttered:
> > grep $HOME /etc/passwd | awk -F : '{ readline; print $1 }'
>
> steven@broken:~$ grep $HOME /etc/passwd | awk -F : '{ readline; print $1 }'
> steven@broken:~$
>
> But, I use LDAP for auth. :-)
in that case use the libc routines. easiest way to get at them is
through perl:
perl -e 'print scalar getpwuid $<'
> steven@broken:~$ echo $USER
> steven
>
> Should be more than sufficient, given a non-brain dead shell like bash or zsh.
.. and does the Right Thing when run through sudo and other such
wrappers.
use the env variables, they're Good.
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- Gus
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