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Re: NSFullUserName() always returns the user name at app launch?
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Re: NSFullUserName() always returns the user name at app launch?


  • Subject: Re: NSFullUserName() always returns the user name at app launch?
  • From: Laurent Daudelin <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 09:57:56 -0800

David,

I really don't understand what you're saying. Thanks, Joar, makes me feel better a bit.




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On Feb 4, 2010, at 09:20, David Blanton wrote:

> No.  They are logged n a user A,  changing the name to user B is meaningless until they log out / login in.
>
> My guess anyway.
>
> On Feb 4, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Joar Wingfors wrote:
>
>>
>> On 4 feb 2010, at 00.27, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
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>>> I'm using NSFullUserName() to get the user name of the currently logged user and from my application, the user can open the Accounts preference pane to edit it. Problem is, after the user changes his user name, another call to NSFullUserName() still returns the original user name. Is this a bug or what?
>>
>>
>> Not sure, but it sounds like something you should file a bug report about in any case:
>>
>> 	<http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/>
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>>
>>> BTW, supporting 10.4 (preventing the user of NSPreferencePanesDirectory, how can one can safely builds the path to "Accounts.prefPane" and make sure it will work even if the system runs under a different language than English?
>>
>>
>> The file system on Mac OS X is always in English, even though it might be presented localized to the user.

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