[ILUG] finding user name from inside a C program

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Joseph Manning wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   Does anyone know how to safely and easily determine the user name
>   of someone running a C program?

    printf("user: %s\n", (getpwuid(getuid()))->pw_name);

regards,
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