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I am trying to get USER-NAME in my spec file while packaging rpm. "$HOME" command gives me USER in case of running in bash. Spec file also works like bash but when I run the similar command in %post section of spec file, I get 'root' as output. This might be happening as user run rpm package using sudo.

Kindly help how to get USER name in Spec file

Wajahat
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  • Check [this question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4598001/how-do-you-find-the-original-user-through-multiple-sudo-and-su-commands), it may help you. – LMC Jan 24 '18 at 18:39

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In the .spec a %define macro would get you the username. Here is an example, how it might look like inside the .spec file.

 Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz

 # User defined function to get who built the RPM
 %define packagername %(who am i | awk '{print $1}')

 %description
 ...
 %prep
 ...

 # Then in the post section call the macro %{packagername}
 %post
 echo "Packager is: %{packagername}"

Note, %post section will be run only when install the .rpm file. Above will print the information into stdout.

Output

$ sudo rpm -ivh simple-0-1.x86_64.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:simple                 ########################################### [100%]
Packager is:  iamauser

In order to use this macro globally on the system, one can define it inside /etc/rpm/macros.<somename>. 

$ cat /etc/rpm/macros.username
# Get who is the packager
%packagername %(who am i | awk '{print $1}')

With the global definition one doesn't need to define it inside the .spec file.

If you don't have permission to write into /etc/rpm, then defining it in ~/.rpmmacros file would make that macro available only to you.

iamauser
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  • Thanks for answering. I am getting only username, however, I want to get the complete path of user (for e.g: /home/). Btw sorry for late reply.. – Wajahat Feb 07 '18 at 12:32