From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-02-16T14:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10952] Re: How do I get current login (like Perl's getlogin)?

In article <982294657.974210.22010.nullmailer@ev.netlab.zetabits.com>,
Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@zetabits.com> wrote:
>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"


Thanks, Matz!  I suspect that if I posted a similar query to 
comp.lang.perl that the odds of having Larry W reply would be pretty slim!

Phil