Re: Getting LOGNAME when using sudo

• Subject: Re: Getting LOGNAME when using sudo
• From: "James Peach" <email@hidden>
• Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:10:51 -0700
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On 30/08/2007, Mike <email@hidden> wrote:
> I have a shell script that needs to get the LOGNAME env variable. But I
> need to run my script using sudo which apparently causes LOGNAME to
> incorrectly be set to "root".
>
> How can can I get the logged in user's name even when running a script
> using sudo?
>
> I need to get the user name because I need to build shell path to the
> current user's desktop and only the exact logged in user's name will work.

>From sudo(8):

ENVIRONMENT
...
        SUDO_USER              Set to the login of the user who invoked sudo


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