Find the IP address of the client in an SSH sessio

Question

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.

Answer 1

Improving on a prior answer. Gives ip address instead of hostname. --ips not available on OS X.

who am i --ips|awk '{print $5}' #ubuntu 14

more universal, change $5 to $6 for OS X 10.11:

WORKSTATION=`who -m|awk '{print $5}'|sed 's/[()]//g'`
WORKSTATION_IP=`dig +short $WORKSTATION`
if [[ -z "$WORKSTATION_IP" ]]; then WORKSTATION_IP="$WORKSTATION"; fi
echo $WORKSTATION_IP