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From: Binish A R <binishar@poornam.com>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: iptables LOG options
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 11:09:55 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4292BE2B.3060206@poornam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4292BC01.8060202@rfgt.net>

Robert Vangel wrote:

> Binish A R wrote:
>
>> Is there any way, I can use environment variables while logging ?
>
>
> From what I can think of, no. Environmental variables are parsed then 
> and there. Using $USER in your script would translate into `--log 
> prefix "root NO SSH ALLOWED"' since the user you are running the 
> iptables command as is root.

Yes exactly ... thats what is happening. The shell is expanding $USER as root.
I hope there was any way out to log the username :(

Thanks for the replies Robert.





  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-24  5:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-24  3:38 iptables LOG options Binish A R
2005-05-24  4:00 ` Robert Vangel
2005-05-24  4:17   ` Binish A R
2005-05-24  5:01     ` Robert Vangel
2005-05-24  5:16       ` Binish A R
2005-05-24  5:30         ` Robert Vangel
2005-05-24  5:39           ` Binish A R [this message]
2005-05-24 14:43       ` Taylor, Grant
2005-05-25  6:55         ` R. DuFresne

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