Re: username audit column

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Nov 29), Ted Yu said:
> By username I mean Linux login. Is there a way to call Perl/Shell
> script to obtain this information ?

Won't work for remote users, of course.  If you were on *BSD, AIX, or
Solaris you could write a UDF that called the getpeereid() or
getpeerucred() libc function to fetch the username for unix-socket
connections.  On Linux you will need to call getsockopt() with the
SO_PEERCRED option.

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	Dan Nelson
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