Re: How do I get the environment variables for the owner of a CGI script?

Environment variables emanate from the user currently running the program. If you want to make a snapshot of a particular user's environment variables, save them somewhere when that user runs your code.

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Re^2: How do I get the environment variables for the owner of a CGI script? by jacques (Priest) on Oct 28, 2004 at 21:53 UTC
I was thinking of getting the username of the owner and then logging in and doing a printenv - all from within the CGI script, but this seems exceedingly silly.	[reply]
Re^3: How do I get the environment variables for the owner of a CGI script? by diotalevi (Canon) on Oct 28, 2004 at 23:50 UTC
Yes, but that's what you have to do.	[reply]