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Article #286user real name
From: James Meritt
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 15:34
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 15:34
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It's no big deal to get the real name of the person who is executing a script (to me, anyway) UNLESS the system is using yellow pages. How do I then? otherwise, I just use: grep $user /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f5 -- James W. Meritt: m23364@mwunix.mitre.org - or - jmeritt@rod.mitre.org The opinions above are mine. If anyone else wants to share them, fine. They may say so if they wish. The facts "belong" to noone and simply are.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!mips!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!agate!linus!linus.mitre.org!mwunix!m23364 From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: user real name Message-ID: <1992Aug4.153431.845@linus.mitre.org> Date: 4 Aug 92 15:34:31 GMT Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Distribution: usa Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean VA Lines: 11 Nntp-Posting-Host: mwunix.mitre.org