diff --git a/syncmail b/syncmail
index 789d4136..03297357 100755
--- a/syncmail
+++ b/syncmail
@@ -232,22 +232,18 @@ def blast_mail(subject, people, filestodiff, contextlines, fromhost):
         conn.connect(MAILHOST, MAILPORT)
         user = pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]
 	
-	# Obtention du real user =>  signature automatique des commits
-	ppid=os.getpid()
-	print ppid
-	os.system("ps a -o tty,ppid,pid %s" % ppid)
-	while user=='root' :
-	    ppid,user = string.split(string.strip(os.popen("ps --no-headers -o ppid,user %s" % ppid).readlines()[0]))
-	    if ppid=='1' :
-		# C'est init, l'user est donc bien root
-		break
-	    
+	if user=="root" :
+	    # Obtention du real user =>  signature automatique des commits
+	    for proc in os.popen("ps --no-headers -o user -t $(ps --no-headers -o tty %s)" % os.getpid() ).readlines() :
+		userp=string.strip(proc)
+		if userp=="root" : break
+		else : user=userp
+	
 	domain = fromhost or getfqdn()
 	#Modif cosmétique pour afficher un sujet explicite :
 	host = string.split(domain,'.')
         author = '%s@%s' % (user, domain)
-        people = 'fred@crans.org'
-	s = StringIO()
+        s = StringIO()
         sys.stdout = s
         try:
             print '''\