Re: Fast User Switching in Panther...
Re: Fast User Switching in Panther...
- Subject: Re: Fast User Switching in Panther...
- From: Dave Camp <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 10:18:50 -0700
On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 09:33 AM, Alec Carlson wrote:
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Is there an API which allows an application to track who the current
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user is
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? It doesn't seem like the logged in user is logged out when a user
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switch
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occurs. So, how can an app find out who the current user is when a user
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switch occurs ? SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser( NULL, &uid, &gid )
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returns
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the logged in user not the current user.
Why do you need to know? What are you trying to accomplish?
I'm not sure there is a concept of a "current user". Processes
typically run as the user that launched them, or run as a special user
if need. For example, there are processes on your machine running as
you, root, www (if you have web sharing on), etc. If someone logged in
via ssh, they would have processes running as their user as well.
Dave
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