Re: how to get which user is on

Some answers to some of your questions:

Alberto Simões

Comment on Re: how to get which user is on

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Re^2: how to get which user is on by Fletch (Bishop) on Mar 28, 2005 at 21:14 UTC
`$ENV{HOME}` is likely to be the home directory of the current user, but don't count on it. Things such as `su`, `sudo`, and `cron` can commonly either leave it pointing at the wrong place or completely unset). Use the value from `getpwuid` to be certain.</pedant>	[reply] [d/l] [select]