Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 20:22:50 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: finding user of su Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32L2.0108081959200.52189-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <15217.48743.5521.681759@guru.mired.org>
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On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: :Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> types: :> Is there a tool (or how would I write one) that can tell me the original :> user after an su? Basically, if I su to root, how can I tell who I su'd :> from? : :There are a number of ways, but none are 100% reliable. You can check :the USER environment variable, which the su command normaly doesn't :change. You can suspend or exit the shell, and see what user you wind :up as. There are probably other ways as well. : su-2.03# whoami root su-2.03# who am i david ttyp4 Aug 2 19:24 (:0.0) -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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