RE: [expert] Determining current user in C

[Alex V Flinsch]

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Derek Simkowiak wrote:
> > use getuid and then look that up in the /etc/passwd file. Not hard if you
> > know what you're doing.
> 
>       Unless the system is using shadowed passwords.
Won't matter. You are not trying to get the password, only the username. Both
userid and name are in the file.


>       Is there no system call for this?
getlogin()

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Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)