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Re: Getting current user short name

I believe the most correct way to achieve this is by using the SystemConfiguration framework. There is good information on how to do that in Advanced Mac OS X Programming. ADC's page on it is here:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Networking/Reference/ SysConfig/index.html

The following is less code but may give the result you are seeing from CGSessionCopyCurrentDictionary and may also not be a completely valid way to do it:

NSString *userName = [[[NSProcessInfo processInfo] environment] objectForKey:@"USER"];

Stephan

On Nov 7, 2006, at 7:03 PM, Eric Blanpied wrote:

Is there some standard way to get the current short user name?


I'm using this code, which I cribbed from a developer.apple.com page on supporting fast user switching. It works fine on my development machine, but on a machine that's only got one account, it turns out it's not the right answer. Makes sense, I guess.

CFStringRef shortUserName;
CFDictionaryRef sessionInfoDict;

sessionInfoDict = CGSessionCopyCurrentDictionary();
if (sessionInfoDict == NULL)
	NSLog(@"Unable to get session dictionary.");

shortUserName = CFDictionaryGetValue(sessionInfoDict, kCGSessionUserNameKey);



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