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Re: Infering who the user is? [message #16522 is a reply to message #16443]

Wed, 28 July 1999 00:00

Mark Hadfield
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Registered: May 1995

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rgs <dejastockwell@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:7nkrp3$foc$1@nnrp1.deja.com...
> Greetings IDL ones,
>
> I'm a WinNT weenie, but would like to
> find out how to identify a user when
> the user starts an IDL procedure, on both
> NT and UNIX OS.

Under NT get the value (IDL procedure GETENV) of the environment variable
USERNAME.

Under Win95/98 (which you didn't ask about) USERNAME is not set
automatically on login, but it could be set in autoexec.bat.

Environment variables are case-insensitive in Windows.

With Unix the corresponding variable appears to depend on the shell, e.g.
LOGNAME in the C shell and USER in the bash shell, so I guess trapping the
output of whoami is the most general solution.

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Mark Hadfield m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research
PO Box 14-901, Wellington, New Zealand

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