Verifying initial logging session from root session

[Shivkumar]

Hi,

Initially logging as a normal user then switching over to root user i want to verify my original(initial) user id from root session.

What is the command for that ?

Thanks,
Shiv

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Nothing more complicated than "who am i".

ORIG_USER=$(who am i)
echo "Original Login: ${ORIG_USER}"
echo "Current User: ${LOGNAME}"

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Shiv,

Your "uid" will be same. You can see using,

# id -u username

-Arun

[Shivkumar]

Clay,

We use powerbroker to become root from a normal user. The command $who am i

didn't show the initial user id.

Thanks,
Shiv

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Shiv,

Try using # id -u username. It should definitely help you.

-Arun

[Shivkumar]

Arun, That is what (username) i want to find from the root session.

Thanks,
Shiv

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Shiv,

I am not sure this will be helpful to you, Try this, # whodo. It will display both root and normal user .

-Arun

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi Shiv,
As I dont use powerbroker it is just guess...
I believe since you use powerbroker, it has the privilege of granting root access to people entitled to... and so if you trace, the initator of su root would be the product itself...
But I believe because the product is well designed that it logs somewhere to whom it has give root access (and time and from where etc...)
So I would go into powerbroker's documentation if I were you


All the best
Victor
P.S.
Ive seen other products who execute programs/commands/etc... "as" do so because there are confgured as root in inetd.conf...

[Frank de Vries]

Just to make it complete:

By the way:
id -u username
and
who am i
(do not show the orginal login, contrary
what is said before)


who -um
root pts/0 Jul 11 11:31 . 12559 orasrv1

shows the orginal login