/* * Implementation of get_username() for Unix. */ #include #include #include "putty.h" char *get_username(void) { struct passwd *p; uid_t uid = getuid(); char *user, *ret = NULL; /* * First, find who we think we are using getlogin. If this * agrees with our uid, we'll go along with it. This should * allow sharing of uids between several login names whilst * coping correctly with people who have su'ed. */ user = getlogin(); #if HAVE_SETPWENT setpwent(); #endif if (user) p = getpwnam(user); else p = NULL; if (p && p->pw_uid == uid) { /* * The result of getlogin() really does correspond to * our uid. Fine. */ ret = user; } else { /* * If that didn't work, for whatever reason, we'll do * the simpler version: look up our uid in the password * file and map it straight to a name. */ p = getpwuid(uid); if (!p) return NULL; ret = p->pw_name; } #if HAVE_ENDPWENT endpwent(); #endif return dupstr(ret); }