From: WATANABE Hirofumi <eban@...>
Date: 2001-02-16T12:37:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10946] Re: How do I get current login (like Perl's getlogin)?

Phil Tomson <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com> writes:

:I'm trying to figure out the current login that a script is running on, so 
:I can determine if the user is authorized.  Is there anything like Perl's 
:getlogin() function in Ruby?  I don't see anything about it in the Pickaxe 
:book.

% ruby -r etc -e 'p Etc.getlogin'
"eban"
% ruby -r etc -e 'p Etc.getpwuid.name'
"eban"

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eban