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Re: Getting full user name

To: REALbasic Network Users Group <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: Getting full user name
From: Knut Lorenzen <RBNUG at fischerappelt dot de>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 20:11:57 +0100
Aaron Ballman schrieb dereinst (am 27.02.2004 20:06 Uhr) via
aaron at realsoftware dot com:

>> Or use a shell and the command "id -P" and parse the output.
> 
> That just gets you the user's short name, and an easier way to get
> that is use the Shell class and do a 'whoami'

Huh?!? It is the other way round here (OS X 10.3.2), whoami only gives me
the short name, while id -P has full service:

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[AlBook-KL:~] kl% whoami
kl
[AlBook-KL:~] kl% id -P
kl:Csq9hr8Kkmthg:501:20::0:0:Knut Lorenzen:/Users/kl/:/bin/tcsh
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Cheers,

Knut


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