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Old 08-23-2005
getting username from a c program in unix

How to get the user name of the Operating system from a c program.

eg:-
-rw-r----- 1 gkuser srth1 292 Jul 27 19:28 u1.txt

i need to get gkuser as the result?
# 2  
Old 08-23-2005
on shell type: man 2 stat
I guess you need a good book on unix system programming ...
# 3  
Old 08-23-2005
man getuid, if you want to get the user identity of a process.
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Old 08-23-2005
Most systems define the environment variable USER at login, so you can use that.
Won't for for programs that call setuid.
Code:
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    char *p=getenv("USER");
    if(p==NULL) return EXIT_FAILURE;
    printf("%s\n",p);
    return 0;
    
}

or go the route of whoami ---
Code:
/* whoami.c */
#define _PROGRAM_NAME "whoami"
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <pwd.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  register struct passwd *pw;
  register uid_t uid;
  int c;
  
  uid = geteuid ();
  pw = getpwuid (uid);
  if (pw)
    {
      puts (pw->pw_name);
      exit (EXIT_SUCCESS);
    }
  fprintf (stderr,"%s: cannot find username for UID %u\n",
	   _PROGRAM_NAME, (unsigned) uid);
  exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
  
}


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