Why not just use the user.name system property? You should be able to 
reference it via ${user.name}

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"Steve S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/15/2004 08:59:17 AM:

> I am trying to run the following:
> 
> <exec executable="/bin/sh" dir="/usr/local/tools/bin">
>     <arg line="test_script"/>
> </exec>
> 
> test_script tries to do something like:
> username=`who am i|awk '{print $1}'|tr "[a-z]" "[A-Z]"`
> where username is used as input for another script. I get the
> following error though:
> [exec] Must be attached to terminal for 'am I' option
> 
> This seems simple but am I missing something obvious?
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve
> 
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