Accessing the username from C++

Subject: Accessing the username from C++
From: Don Clark <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 17:39:13 -0500
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I need a way to get the login name from my C++ program, and getlogin() doesn't do it - I'm logged in and am an administrator, and getlogin() returns "root". What I really want to do is call fopen("~/Library/Logs/ousb2log.txt", "a"); but this fails with error code 2, file does not exist.

Thanks

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