Getting the current user name

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

I think under Mac OS 9 I could use the command “get owner name” to return the current setting of the “owener name” field.

is there any way under Mac OS X to get the name of the user who is currently logged in? I want to search a mounted server volume for a folder wihich matches the name of the currently logged in user. So it’s just the owner name bit that’s holding me up at the moment

#2

Maybe one/both of these will work.

set user_ to system attribute "USER"
set user_ to do shell script "whoami"

– Rob

#3

both work! thanks!

#4

I think that on long usernames, system attribute “USER”, trunc the name, but not sure

#5

For the sake of clarification, on my system, this returns the short name as entered in the Accounts pref pane. Is that what you are referring to JB? I ask only because truncation might not be the word to use here. :wink:

– Rob

#6

JB, to get the long name you can use one of these scripts

-- set theFullName to do shell script "finger " & (system attribute "USER") & "| grep Login | colrm 1 46"

--set theFullName to do shell script "niutil -readprop . /users/" & (do shell script "whoami") & " realname"

--set usn to do shell script "niutil -readprop . /users/`whoami` realname"
--display dialog usn

(* set cmd to "perl -e "@p = getpwnam `whoami`;" -e 'print "$p[6]";'"
set fullName to (do shell script cmd)
display dialog fullName *)

(* set cmd to "perl -e "@p = getpwnam `whoami`;" -e 'print "$p[6]";'"
do shell script cmd
display dialog result *)
#7

Sorry for the late reply. As Rob mentioned it, I was talking about the short name of the user the one entered in the account pref pane. And it returns the complete short name as exepected, no truncation.

#8

Hey,
I was wondering if it´s possible to get the current users password as well.
I want the script to use the current user´s user name and password to mount a share, I just can´t seem to find the system attribute for the password. Is it possible to get hold of it?

Thanks,
Tobbe

#9

I hope not!! :shock:

– Rob

#10

Ha ha, ok. I get it. :wink:
Well, I´d like to take the information that a user provides in the login window and use that to mount a share. Shouldn´t be to hard but I can´t make it happen. The username is possible to get through the system attribute “USER” right? So I thought it had to be possible to automaticly take the current user password and use it to mount a volume.
/T