Find the IP address of the client in an SSH session
I have a script that is to be run by a person that logs in to the server with SSH.
Is there a way to find out automatically what IP address the user is connecting from?
Of course, I could ask the user (it is a tool for programmers, so no problem with that), but it would be cooler if I just found out.
Check if there is an environment variable called:
$SSH_CLIENT
OR
$SSH_CONNECTION
(or any other environment variables) which gets set when the user logs in. Then process it using the user login script.
Extract the IP:
$ echo $SSH_CLIENT | awk '{ print $1}'
1.2.3.4
$ echo $SSH_CONNECTION | awk '{print $1}'
1.2.3.4
You could use the command:
server:~# pinky
that will give to you somehting like this:
Login Name TTY Idle When Where
root root pts/0 2009-06-15 13:41 192.168.1.133
Try the following to get just the IP address:
who am i|awk '{ print $5}'
Just type the following command on your Linux machine:
who
who | cut -d"(" -f2 |cut -d")" -f1