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Re: Getting current user short name

Subject: Re: Getting current user short name
From: "Adam R. Maxwell" <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 19:53:00 -0800


On Nov 7, 2006, at 16:34, Erik Buck wrote:

NSUserName()
NSFullUserName()
It is not safe to assume that the name returned by NSUserName() identifies the user logged into the Mac OS X console. The user that started an application could be remotely logged in or logged in via a Unix shell.

We're using NSUserName/NSFullUserName/NSHomeDirectory functions in an app. Is it safe to assume these return the console user for a Cocoa GUI application since a connection to the window server is required to run the app? If there's good reason to switch to SC, we could use NSHomeDirectoryForUser() with SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser, but I don't see a SystemConfiguration framework equivalent for NSFullUserName().

thanks,
Adam

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