terminal question

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:15:35PM -0400, Courtney wrote:
> I need to have a way to capture the terminal a user is on-from that I can
> determine where to print report(s) etc...problem is that they use the same
> login so I cannot use @id...
> 
> We are on SCO Unix...

You can USER /bin/tty to get the tty name, but if they're on via the
network, that won't tell you enough.  Alas, finding out enough can be
difficult.

sshd puts the source IP address in the environment, but telnetd does
not; you may need to pry the address out of the output of who, with the
appropriate options.

Cheers,
-- jra
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