Get current user from Casper?

[#1]

The answer I'm looking for might already be floating around the list
somewhere, but I haven't had any luck finding it...

Is there any way I can run a script from Casper and get the currently logged
in user? A Œwho am I' command is only returning us the macs user that Casper
uses to manage the machine. Is there a way to find the real user?

Thanks,
Bob

[ktrampe]

Would this work?

who | grep "console"

Have a great afternoon,
Kerry

[tlarkin]

There are many methods to do this, but the most popular one on this
mailing list seems to be this

admins-imac:~ tlarkin$ ls -l /dev/console | awk '{ print $3 }' tlarkin admins-imac:~ tlarkin$

[jarednichols]

I set

user=ls -l /dev/console | cut -d " " -f 4

Then, call $user in your scripts

And that works fine for me. Like Tom said, there’s loads of ways to do it.
j

[#5]

USER='who | grep 'console' | cut ­d' ' -f1'

Gives us the shortname of the user every time.

Thanks!

[tlarkin]

Also, technically Casper already does this for you, if you are doing a
log in hook.

http://jamfsoftware.com/kb/article.php?id=040 (
http://jamfsoftware.com/kb/article.php?id=040 )

$3 returns the currently logged in user

[bentoms]

I'd actually like a bit of help on this..

Is $3 populated automatically via casper?

I've had trouble calling it from scripts..

Ideally, I'd like to use is as the following crude example:

rm /$3/Library/Fonts/Lithos*

i.e. to remove or edit a file somewhere under the logged in users account, yet I this always seems to run as root if run via a policy.

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[Bukira]

Thats coz policys run as root sot he current user is root

you need to get the logged in user via the console as per the commands
others have given

as so

user=ls -l /dev/console | cut -d " " -f 4

this gets logged in user not the user runinng the script, i believe
ONLY login hooks use $3 as the logged in user and root root

Criss

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[bentoms]

Thanks Chris.

So am I correct to presume that if I run these scripts @ login they'll receive $3?

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[#10]

Corrrect.

[tlarkin]

Yes, correct. The $3 gets passed only at log in. So for example if you
had a script that did this....

rm -rf /Users/$3/Library/Preferences/com.company.someplist

It would automatically get the current user logging in, this is because
log in hooks run as the root user.

[bentoms]

Thanks all..

CCA in London next week so hopefully.. I’ll hopefully be helpful afterwards ?

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