who called sudo ?

Raj Kiran Grandhi grajkiran at gmail.com
Sat Mar 15 13:27:08 UTC 2008


dave selby wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am writing an install script that needs to be root, its started with
> 
> sudo install.py
> 
> It needs to know who was the user that executed 'sudo install.py' ...
> any ideas how I get that info from the shell or sudo command ?

import os
print os.environ['SUDO_USER']


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find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the 
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