windows OS user name

[FALCONSEYE]

is there a way to get the user's windows OS login with java? if so, how?
thanks for the help in advance

 

[LuckyStarr]

You can try to retrieve the user's account name:

System.getProperty("user.name");

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[FALCONSEYE]

LuckyStarr, thanks a million....

 

[GraemeOswald]

Hmmm. Trouble is that you can invoke the java program with -Duser.name=SomeoneElse or put this in a properties file and then you don't get the windows OS user name, but "SomeoneElse" instead, so this can't be relied upon.
So I'm still looking for a way to do it - I suspect native code is unavoidable...

Graeme

 

[stefanwagner]

Most versions of windows allow unnamed login too.

And you may fake the username on windows by 'SET USER=nobody' or in a similar way - which is possible on linux too.

That doesn't mean that the User home is changed with that technique too, or permissions.

Windows has never been a real multiuser system

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[Custom24]

Stefanwagner

I have tried the set user and set username environment hack, and it did not alter the result, either for a java app calling the code above, or a similar .net app, or an asp.net application using windows integrated security (altering the environment variable does not affect the user that the server sees).

What am I missing?

Thanks
Mark

Mark

 

[FALCONSEYE]

i get the username by

System.getProperty("user.name");

but couldn't get the user password. The application runs on the intranet so there won't be any security problem. The OS is Windows XP Pro.

Mr Oswald, even if i have say 3 users setup on my local machine, when i run LuckyStar's code it just gives me the current username, not the others. So, won't it help?

By the way, did anybody manage to get the user password as well?

 

[sedj]

You cannot get the user's password from the System properties !
If you are authenticating via LDAP/AD - then use that to authenticate.

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