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We have some tables where we store some sensitive information. These tables have one extra column “ModifiedBy”. Currently we insert the value for this column programmatically.
Is there a way to get the current unix user into SQL Server. The idea is to auto-populate the user name/id into that column with the use of triggers.
You don’t mention the language or situation, so an answer is hard …
presuming users are logged in and running a program, and that this program is a scripting language then you can execute
whoamifrom the shell and use that value.If you are using C, then see geteuid() and friends.