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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Q: grab email username from script Post 302799309 by KlintJ on Friday 26th of April 2013 08:45:42 AM

04-26-2013

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These are the commands i tried thus far...all i get are a list of all the accounts auch as "apache service user" "sas administrator account" "control-m agent user" "ftp user" "and a whole lot of generic account names

Code:

echo "$(nawk -F: -v user=$(logname) '$1 == user {print $5}' /etc/passwd)"
echo $(grep "$username" /etc/passwd| awk -F: '{print $5}' )
echo $(grep "$username" /etc/passwd| nawk -F: '{print $5}' )

The command you gave returns the same things though in a line to account name. No actual user names are in this list more just account user types
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Thanks for the assistance though.

Last edited by Franklin52; 04-26-2013 at 09:47 AM.. Reason: Code tags

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NAME

       setuid - run a command with a different uid.

SYNOPSIS

       setuid username|uid   command [ args ]

DESCRIPTION

       Setuid  changes	user id, then executes the specified command.  Unlike some versions of su(1), this program doesn't ever ask for a password
       when executed with effective uid=root.  This program doesn't change the environment; it only changes the uid and then uses execvp() to find
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       For example,
	      setuid  some_user  $SHELL
       can be used to start a shell running as another user.

       Setuid  is  useful  inside  scripts that are being run by a setuid-root user -- such as a script invoked with super, so that the script can
       execute some commands using the uid of the original user, instead of root.  This allows unsafe commands (such as editors and pagers) to	be
       used  in  a  non-root  mode inside a super script.  For example, an operator with permission to modify a certain protected_file could use a
       super command that simply does:
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	      setuid $ORIG_USER ${EDITOR:-/bin/vi} temp_file
	      cp temp_file protected_file
       (Note: don't use this example directly.	If the temp_file can somehow be replaced by another user, as might be the case if it's kept  in  a
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