site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Importance: Normal User-agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.15 Wouldn't it be better to use $HOME instead of the user name? THis works if the user folder is in a non-standard location, e.g. a network home folder or a home on a secondary volume. -Christian On Sun, May 9, 2010 5:14 pm, Iceberg-Dev wrote:

On May 9, 2010, at 8:10 PM, Tim Streater wrote:

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My post-install script (written in PHP) must write a file on the user's desktop, and so needs the user's shortname in order to construct the path. The script also modifies the apache config file and so needs admin priv. I appear to be able to give it that by ticking "Require admin authentication".

In my PHP, I appear to be able to do:

$user = getenv ("USER");

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