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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers grep current user Post 302291362 by treesloth on Wednesday 25th of February 2009 12:38:16 PM
Old 02-25-2009
It sounds like you're on the right path. I'd suggest just breaking it down. First, find out who $USER is on the box that seems not to work correctly:

Code:
echo $USER

Let's say the response is 'bob'. Next, rather than using $USER, instead grep for 'bob':
Code:
> last | grep bob
bob        console                   Mon Feb 23 20:11 - 20:21  (00:10)
bob        ttyv0                     Mon Feb 23 19:20 - shutdown  (00:00)
bob        ttyv0                     Mon Feb 23 17:28 - 19:18  (01:50)

Of course, you might not get anything, so you might want to check "last" manually and see if bob's on the list. If not, and you're logged in as bob, last would seem to be broken in some way. If so, grep is broken, which seems pretty unlikely. If grepping for bob works, but grepping for $USER doesn't, then the use of env variables is failing. Try one of these:

Code:
last | grep `echo $USER`

or

Code:
last | grep `whoami`

 

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ALTER USER 
MAPPING(7) SQL Commands ALTER USER MAPPING(7) NAME
ALTER USER MAPPING - change the definition of a user mapping SYNOPSIS
ALTER USER MAPPING FOR { username | USER | CURRENT_USER | PUBLIC } SERVER servername OPTIONS ( [ ADD | SET | DROP ] option ['value'] [, ... ] ) DESCRIPTION
ALTER USER MAPPING changes the definition of a user mapping. The owner of a foreign server can alter user mappings for that server for any user. Also, a user can alter a user mapping for his own user name if USAGE privilege on the server has been granted to the user. PARAMETERS
username User name of the mapping. CURRENT_USER and USER match the name of the current user. PUBLIC is used to match all present and future user names in the system. servername Server name of the user mapping. OPTIONS ( [ ADD | SET | DROP ] option ['value'] [, ... ] ) Change options for the user mapping. The new options override any previously specified options. ADD, SET, and DROP specify the action to be performed. ADD is assumed if no operation is explicitly specified. Option names must be unique; options are also vali- dated by the server's foreign-data wrapper. EXAMPLES
Change the password for user mapping bob, server foo: ALTER USER MAPPING FOR bob SERVER foo OPTIONS (user 'bob', password 'public'); COMPATIBILITY
ALTER USER MAPPING conforms to ISO/IEC 9075-9 (SQL/MED). There is a subtle syntax issue: The standard omits the FOR key word. Since both CREATE USER MAPPING and DROP USER MAPPING use FOR in analogous positions, and IBM DB2 (being the other major SQL/MED implementation) also requires it for ALTER USER MAPPING, PostgreSQL diverges from the standard here in the interest of consistency and interoperability. SEE ALSO
CREATE USER MAPPING [create_user_mapping(7)], DROP USER MAPPING [drop_user_mapping(7)] SQL - Language Statements 2010-05-14 ALTER USER MAPPING(7)
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