On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 20:17, Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote:

> On 5/1/19 10:28 PM, Adam Steen wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> In a shell script invoked by doas, is it possible to find which user
>> invoke the script? my search a the moment has come up empty.
>
> most likely place would be an environment variable, right?
>
> So ...
>
> $ whoami
> nick
>
> $ doas -s
>
> # whoami
> root
>
> # env |grep nick
> LOGNAME=nick
> HOME=/home/nick
> MAIL=/var/mail/nick
>
> PATH=/home/nick/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/games:.
> USER=nick
>
> # echo "I started out as $LOGNAME"
> I started out as nick
>
> 'dar ya go.
>
> Nick.

Awesome thanks Nick!

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