Login Scripts question

Question

I have cobbled together a script which display a users quota information when logging in. The script works fine and I can get it to run from the login script managed preference set in workgroup manager. The problem I have is that the script is reporting the user as root rather than the login user. My understanding is that login scripts (not loginhooks) run as the login user rather than the root account or is this incorrect? Trust level is set to anonymous at the moment.
Here is the script so its more clear what im doing:
#!/bin/sh
# quotas - displays usage levels on server.
# get user's short name.
thisUser=`whoami`
# get quota from LDAP
maxSpace=`ldapsearch -h myserver.com -b "dc=myserver,dc=com" -x -LLL uid=$thisUser apple-user-homequota|grep apple|awk {'print $2'}`
# convert to MB
maxMegs=`expr $maxSpace / 1024 / 1024`
maxGigs=`expr $maxSpace / 1024 / 1024 / 1024`
# Returns user's home directory disk usage in 1024 KB blocks.
currentSpace=`du -sk ~ | awk '{print $1}'`
# convert to MB
currentMegs=`expr $currentSpace / 1024`
# floating point math for percentage used
spaceUsed=`echo "scale=2; $currentMegs / $maxMegs" | bc`
percentUsed=`echo "scale=0; $spaceUsed * 100" | bc | sed -e "s/.00//g"`
/usr/bin/osascript <<-EOF
tell application "System Events"
activate
display dialog "Disk Usage for user: $thisUser used: $currentMegs Mb max: $maxGigs Gb percent: $percentUsed %"
end tell
EOF
exit

Answer 1

In the future, please post your Code Snippits between
... your code here ...
That will preserve all your formatting and prevent the forum formatting code from stealing some of your characters.
And it will make it easy for people to see what you really wrote as your script.
PS. Why not just use the quota command?
Message was edited by: BobHarris