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Re: Getting the User/Owner of another process

At 9:41 Uhr -0700 30.09.2003, John Farmer wrote:
When the Startup Item calls NSUserName() (which according to the
documentation and I quote: "Returns the logon name of the current user."),
returns root (the owner of the process), not the logon name of the current
user. When I run NSHomeDirectory it gives me the roots home directory, this
doesn't help me because I need the current User Name to get the path for the
preferences.

There *is no* current user at StartupItems time, apart from root. If you want to do startup per-user, you have to register a Login Item, that is launched when a particular user logs in. So, I doubt you'll find a copy of Finder running at that time, either.

/Users/johnfarmer/Library/Preferences/... I need to get the user name for
John Farmer so I can create the path to access the user's plist. I can
however get the user name from the Preference Pane, but I can't have the
user opening the Preference Pane everytime they login just to startup the
network.

Register a Login Item instead, which sends the location of the current user's prefs to your driver. There is a piece of sample code available from Apple (look on their web site, or e-mail DTS if it isn't there) called the LoginItemsAPI, which lets you add and remove login items.
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M. Uli Kusterer
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References: 
 >Re: Getting the User/Owner of another process (From: "Alastair J.Houghton" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Getting the User/Owner of another process (From: "John Farmer" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Getting the User/Owner of another process (From: David Remahl <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Getting the User/Owner of another process (From: "John Farmer" <email@hidden>)



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