how to get the username
lazarus / 32-Linux

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a.atalla · 2010-07-07 10:42

i need the user name to use in my application
i couldnot found the function that returns the user-name  in linux

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theo · 2010-07-07 10:55

GetEnvironmentVariable('USER');

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typo · 2010-07-07 11:44

GetEnvironmentVariable('USERNAME');

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a.atalla · 2010-07-07 14:15

Quote from: theo on July 07, 2010, 12:55:34
pmGetEnvironmentVariable('USER');        

that works ,but now my application will run with root priviliage so
that function will return "root"  as the user name
is there any way i can list all the computer users "not only the
current user" ?

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theo · 2010-07-07 14:49

What do you want to achieve?
Sounds like you don't know yourself ;-)

http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,9770.msg48175.html
#msg48175

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a.atalla · 2010-07-07 15:01

GetEnvironmentVariable('USER');        
this one was what i'm looking for but now i need another thing

my application will run on the user machine with root privilege ,and
it will do some admin stuff on other users account ,so i need to know
what the other users that use the computer

i wish that is clear

does the post u linked belongs to my question?

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theo · 2010-07-07 15:11

Quote from: a.atalla on July 07, 2010, 05:01:20 pmdoes the post u
linked belongs to my question?

Yes.

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Laksen · 2010-07-07 17:49

It's easy.

Take a look at the users unit in the users fpc package. It contains
everything you need. GetUserList, and GetUserData combined with
FpGetuid from baseunix sounds like what you want

That's ofcourse a very unix specific unit