From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-02-16T12:37:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10947] Re: How do I get current login (like Perl's getlogin)?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:10945] How do I get current login (like Perl's getlogin)?"
    on 01/02/16, 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.

require 'etc'
print Etc.getlogin, "\n"