Running Python script as root (with sudo) - what is the username of the effective user?

Question

I\'ve recently began using ConfigParser() for my python scripts to add some functionality to them for config files. I know how to use it but I have a problem. My script need

Answer 1

This doesn't work.

homepath = os.path.expanduser("~/")

So don't use it.

You want this.

username= os.environ["LOGNAME"]
homepath = os.path.expanduser("~"+username+"/")

http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#os.getlogin

Or perhaps this.

 username= pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]
 homepath = os.path.expanduser("~"+username+"/")