Re: Obtaining userid from script called by sudo and other scripts

Not sure I understand your script nesting problem, but as for sudo, the environment variable SUDO_USER (set by sudo to who called sudo) might help.

$ sudo -u nobody perl -E 'say scalar getpwuid $>; say $ENV{SUDO_USER}'
nobody
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Re^2: Obtaining userid from script called by sudo and other scripts by njetson (Initiate) on Feb 14, 2012 at 22:29 UTC
the SUDO_USER variable solved the problem: Thank you	[reply]