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Asked: 2017-03-14 17:45:53 +0800 CST

How can I get the username from a python script run with pkexec?

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I'm executing a python script as root with pkexec and I'm using working_dir = os.getenv('HOME') to get the username but it always returns root instead of test1 which is the current user. How can I get the user that ran pkexec instead?

I already tried print os.environ["SUDO_USER"] but that fails since it's not being executed directly with sudo. I am on trusty now but behaves the same in 16.04.

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  1. Best Answer

    I fixed it like this:

    import pwd
import os

user = pwd.getpwuid(int(os.environ["PKEXEC_UID"])).pw_name
working_dir = '/home/{}'.format(user)
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