Re: get logged in username

Hi, Thanks for reply,

This is the exact scenario:
When I use the command "ssh admin@host", the user is authenticated by
a custom Pam module, and it's given the UID, GID and shell from a
custom nss module. The shell is also a custom CLI, which needs the
username - not the UID - to operate well. I can't get the username
from UID since there is no one-to-one correspondence between them.
Also the commands: who, id and .. doesn't give me the username, since
there is no tty for the session.

Regards,
Mohsen

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Schaff Mark-C00070
<mark.schaff@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What are trying to do. Need  information .

Thank you

Mark Schaff
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mohsen Alimomeni <m.alimomeni@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:18 PM
To: secureshell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <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,
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