[Sid23Nova]

I was looking for a little code snippet that could help identify who the user is in OS X.

[Mactoid]

Originally posted by Sid23Nova:
<STRONG>I was looking for a little code snippet that could help identify who the user is in OS X.</STRONG>

Try this

[Rickster]

If you're writing a Cocoa app (or Foundation command-line tool), use this:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier>NSString *NSUserName(void)</font>[/code]
Found in NSPathUtilities.h, I believe.

[Sid23Nova]

Originally posted by Sid23Nova:
<STRONG>I was looking for a little code snippet that could help identify who the user is in OS X.</STRONG>

I suppose i should clarify, I was trying to get the current user's name in OS X in a carbon application. thanks for the reply, but neither of the two options worked in the program, do you guys have any other ideas??????

[Angus_D]

CFM or Mach-O?

[Sid23Nova]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
<STRONG>CFM or Mach-O?</STRONG>

Mach-O

[Angus_D]

Well then getuid() or geteuid() should work. What errors are you getting?

[Sid23Nova]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
<STRONG>Well then getuid() or geteuid() should work. What errors are you getting?</STRONG>

They seem not to exist in the API, it gives me an undeclared function error, which is the same thing as it saying that it doesn't recognize the function, i think.....

[Angus_D]

You need to import the right header, duh. man getuid

Either that or use SystemConfiguration.

[Sid23Nova]

thanks

I found another, sort of simpler, way to get it through CSCopyUserName(true), which returns a CSStringRef of the login name, which is pretty cool, actually.

Thanks again