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Re: Finding the owner of a session



On Sunday 14 December 2003 00:26, Don Rozenberg wrote:
> I am running KDE under Knoppix 3.3.  I am writing a script that will be 
> run when a digital camera is attached via USB.
> 
> I would like to find a way of determing the userid of the person who 
> logged in and started the KDE session.  One script, usb-mount, looks at 
> /dev/console and gets root as the answer.  Is there a better way to 
> determine the userid.

Appended are two scripts I use.

	/etc/hotplug/active-user-display
	/etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam

They support that the active session is on :0 or :1 etc
at the time the cammera is connected.  The current active user
has also to be in group camera.

Achim

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Attachment: active-user-display
Description: application/shellscript

Attachment: usbcam
Description: application/shellscript


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