[Yum-devel] [PATCH 1/6] Add getloginuid(), so we can see who called "sudo yum"

[James Antill]

---
 yum/misc.py |   15 +++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/yum/misc.py b/yum/misc.py
index ab92b78..f0a0614 100644
--- a/yum/misc.py
+++ b/yum/misc.py
@@ -791,6 +791,21 @@ def unlink_f(filename):
         if e.errno != errno.ENOENT:
             raise
 
+def getloginuid():
+    """ Get the audit-uid/login-uid, if available. None is returned if there
+        was a problem. Note that no caching is done here. """
+    #  We might normally call audit.audit_getloginuid(), except that requires
+    # importing all of the audit module. And it doesn't work anyway: BZ 518721
+    try:
+        fo = open("/proc/self/loginuid")
+    except IOError:
+        return None
+    data = fo.read()
+    try:
+        return int(data)
+    except ValueError:
+        return None
+
 # ---------- i18n ----------
 import locale
 import sys
-- 
1.6.2.5