who called sudo ?

dave selby dave6502 at googlemail.com
Sat Mar 15 13:30:31 UTC 2008


A huge THANK YOU

Dave


On 15/03/2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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