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Getting LOGNAME when using sudo

Subject: Getting LOGNAME when using sudo
From: Mike <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:52:53 -0700

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.

Thanks,

Mike
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