From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-04-05T01:55:27+09:00
Subject: Re: how do I find the name of the current user?



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Mills [mailto:cmills@freeshell.org] 
> Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 10:35 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: how do I find the name of the current user?
> 
> 
> 
> Sam Roberts wrote:
> > Quoting csaba@phony_for_avoiding_spam.org, on Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at
> 11:54:43AM +0900:
> > > On 2005-04-03, Sam Roberts <sroberts@uniserve.com> wrote:
> > > > I'm thinking Etc.getlogin followed by 
> Etc.getpwnam.gecos might be
> best
> > > > on unix, is there a windowsy equivalent?
> > >
> > > Would this help you? 
> > > http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/135205
> >
> > It looks great, but I don't want to use it until its in the stdlib.
> Its
> > a little more than I want to get the name of the current user.
> >
> > But, I'll remember, I might need it in the future.
> >
> 
> I don't know how portable this is, but:
> 
> irb(main):001:0> ENV["USER"]
> => "cmills"
> 
> -Charlie

It's not defined on my Windows XP Pro box (though, see USERPROFILE).

Also see ruby-talk:37643 for a Win32API wrapper around GetUserName().

Regards,

Dan