User ID in Windows

ruby-talk
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Does anyone know a convenient way to get the login name of the user in
Windows (NT4.0)? I know this is probably an RTFM question, but a quick
pass through the pickaxe book, RubyCentral, and Google didn’t turn up
anything. Mind you, i’m a unix guy and know little about getting anything
useful from Windows…

-dave

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Does anyone know a convenient way to get the login name of the user in
Windows (NT4.0)? I know this is probably an RTFM question, but a quick

See: http://www.ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/37643

regards,
-joe

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Does anyone know a convenient way to get the login name of the user
in
Windows (NT4.0)? I know this is probably an RTFM question, but a
quick

See: http://www.ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/37643

You can also check ENV:

S:\ruby-cvs\build>irb
irb(main):001:0> ENV[‘UserName’]
“ChrisM”

S:\ruby-cvs\build>ruby -v
ruby 1.6.6 (2001-12-26) [i586-mswin32]

Chris
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