From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2008-08-15T08:47:28+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get Windows user name?

On Aug 15, 12:50 am, Mike Johnson <freezingsm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> I am trying to detect the user who's currently login the Windows system.
> Is there way to do it in Ruby?
>
> Thanks

NT/2K/2K3/Vista systems have a environment variable for interactive
users:

irb(main):001:0> ENV['USERNAME']
=> "Luis"

So you only need to asign ENV['USERNAME'] and will get the current
username.

If your process is not an interactive one (ala, a Windows service)
then this variable will be nil or the special account used for it
(LocalService).

HTH,
--
Luis Lavena