Re: Loginwindow agruments

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From: David Lemson
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1992 01:25

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elitman@rac2.wam.umd.edu (Eric A. Litman) writes:

>Does loginwindow pass arguments to Login/LogoutHook? Specifically, I'd like
>to be able to exec certain processes as root within the system *Hook files,
>while others would run under the uid of the current user.

Yes, the username of the currently logging-in user is passed to
LoginHook as the first argument.  I don't know for sure about LogoutHook,
I haven't really cared who was logging out my LogoutHook scripts (I
generally just do a 'dim 0' in LogoutHook).

To do this, the easiest way is probably just to make LoginHook a
shell script and say:
su $1 -c "/usr/bin/commandtorunasthem"
whenever you want something run as that user.
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