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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell Script for User AUTH Help Post 302497340 by DC Slick on Thursday 17th of February 2011 02:09:13 AM
Old 02-17-2011
So you're wanting to authenticate with the users login and pass that's on the machine they're running it from? Why? Why not just make sure they are a certain user like:

Code:
[`whoami` = "root" ] && echo "I am root"
[`whoami` = "shiv2001in" ] && echo "I am unix.com user shiv2001in"

In other words, your script can test to see who the user is. You can say:
Code:
[ ! `whoami` = "user1" -o "user2" -o "user" ] && echo "You are not authorized to run this script"

 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

whoami

WHOAMI(1)							   User Commands							 WHOAMI(1)

NAME

       whoami - print effective userid

SYNOPSIS

       whoami [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

       Print the user name associated with the current effective user ID.  Same as id -un.

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

AUTHOR

       Written by Richard Mlynarik.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This   is   free   software.    You   may   redistribute   copies   of	it   under   the   terms   of	the  GNU  General  Public  License
       <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.	There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation for whoami is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and whoami programs are properly installed at your  site,
       the command

	      info whoami

       should give you access to the complete manual.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+--------------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    |  ATTRIBUTE VALUE	 |
       +--------------------+--------------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWgnu-coreutils  |
       +--------------------+--------------------+
       |Interface Stability | Uncommitted	 |
       +--------------------+--------------------+
NOTES

       Source for GNU coreutils is available on http://opensolaris.org.

whoami 6.7							   December 2006							 WHOAMI(1)
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