From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-10-22T06:38:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows - Get current  logged user

Rodrigo Bermejo wrote:
> James Tucker wrote:
>> def get_user; ENV['USERNAME']; end
> 
> The issue here is that it will return the username Im using to log into 
> the box
> using net/telnet.
> 
> Iam looking for the username of the guy seated in front of the computer.
> Something similar to the  UNIX 'finger,who,w' commands
> 
> I've already tried looking in the registry with out success.

require 'windows/system_info'
include Windows::SystemInfo

buffer = 0.chr * 256
nsize = [buffer.size].pack("L")

unless GetUserName.call(buffer, nsize)
    raise 'Something went wrong'
end

length   = nsize.unpack("L")[0]
username = buffer[0 ... length].chop
username

Regards,

Dan