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Re: How do I return current user information
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Re: How do I return current user information


  • Subject: Re: How do I return current user information
  • From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:51:51 -0800

At 08:33a +0100 11/20/2003, Emmanuel didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:

At 5:10 PM +1100 20/11/03, Richard Morton wrote:
>On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 10:33 AM, Emmanuel wrote:
>
>>At 11:07 AM -0800 19/11/03, Redd, Mark wrote:
>>>Hi all. I am using OS\X on a win2k domain with admitMac. I need to
>>>figure out a way to return the current user logged in as a variable.
>>
>>system attribute "USER" returning fred
>
>Much faster than a shell script. ;-) What's the 'returning fred' bit for? It works the same without it.

The OP asked that the current user be stored into a variable. Here we store it into fred.

Heh, I've never seen that syntax before. Cool. :)


-boo
slapping earth harvest margarine onto sprouted 7-grain bread for dinner
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