From 3f9a2b9e15e0fa42ec1ac7858786f57b9f036841 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Igor Kolokolnikov <igor@kolokolnikov.dev>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 18:06:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Automatically determine user and group.

---
 config.def.h |  7 ++++---
 slock.c      | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/config.def.h b/config.def.h
index ebaba70..38560f0 100644
--- a/config.def.h
+++ b/config.def.h
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 /* user and group to drop privileges to */
-static const char *user  = "igor";
-static const char *group = "igor";
+/* NOTE: Leave these empty if you want them to be determined automatically. */
+static const char *user  = "";
+static const char *group = "";
 
 static const char *colorname[NUMCOLS] = {
 	[INIT] =   "black",     /* after initialization */
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ static const Passthrough passthroughs[] = {
 	{ 0,          XF86XK_MonBrightnessDown },
 };
 
-static const char *dspoffcmd[]  = { "xset", "dpms", "force", "off", NULL };
+/*static const char *dspoffcmd[]  = { "xset", "dpms", "force", "off", NULL };*/
 
 static const Key keys[] = {
     /* modifier                     key        function        argument */
diff --git a/slock.c b/slock.c
index 7c396eb..abc256e 100644
--- a/slock.c
+++ b/slock.c
@@ -409,6 +409,8 @@ main(int argc, char **argv) {
 	int s, nlocks, nscreens;
     int event_base, error_base;
 
+    char *username, *groupname;
+
 	ARGBEGIN {
 	case 'v':
 		puts("slock-"VERSION);
@@ -417,15 +419,25 @@ main(int argc, char **argv) {
 		usage();
 	} ARGEND
 
+    if(strlen(user) && strlen(group)) {
+        username = (char *)user;
+        groupname = (char *)group;
+    } else {
+        username = getenv("USER");
+        groupname = username;
+    }
+
+    printf("%s:%s\n", username, groupname);
+
 	/* validate drop-user and -group */
 	errno = 0;
-	if (!(pwd = getpwnam(user)))
-		die("slock: getpwnam %s: %s\n", user,
+	if (!(pwd = getpwnam(username)))
+		die("slock: getpwnam %s: %s\n", username,
 		    errno ? strerror(errno) : "user entry not found");
 	duid = pwd->pw_uid;
 	errno = 0;
-	if (!(grp = getgrnam(group)))
-		die("slock: getgrnam %s: %s\n", group,
+	if (!(grp = getgrnam(groupname)))
+		die("slock: getgrnam %s: %s\n", groupname,
 		    errno ? strerror(errno) : "group entry not found");
 	dgid = grp->gr_gid;