The pythonic way equal to "whoami"

[Nitin Pawar]

import getpass

user = getpass.getuser()

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:54 PM, TheSaint <nobody at nowhere.net.no> wrote:

> Hello,
> I was trying to find out whose the program launcher, but os.environ['USER']
> returns the user whom owns the desktop environment, regardless the program
> is called by root.
> I'd like to know it, so the program will run with the right privileges.
>
> Is there any standard function on python, that will do it?
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Nitin Pawar
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