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 -- To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. You discover truth everytime you use it. -- reddy@lion.austin.ibm.com
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