Ruby Forum JRuby > Get current user logged-in to local computer

Dear all,

Would it be possible to get the current user that logged into local 
computer
with Ruby? I'm building an intranet apps and would like to get the 
username
that logged into the computer they are using.

Thanks in advance

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Hi Joshua,

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:17 AM, Partogi, Joshua <Joshua.Partogi@aig.com> 
wrote:

> Would it be possible to get the current user that logged into local computer
> with Ruby? I'm building an intranet apps and would like to get the username
> that logged into the computer they are using.

You can do the following:
1.

ENV['USER']  on Unix
ENV['USERNAME'] on Windows

2.

require 'etc'
Etc.getlogin  (on all platforms)

Thanks,
  --Vladimir

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