username of current process

[Robbie Clutton]

Hi,

From the process global I can see that I can get the current user id,
but is there a way to get the current username?

Thanks

Robbie

[mscdex]

On Sep 23, 5:32 am, Robbie Clutton <robert.clut...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> From the process global I can see that I can get the current user id,
> but is there a way to get the current username?

Nothing built-in, but you could easily execute 'whoami' as a child
process.

[Christian Eager]

I'm not sure it will always be set, but would process.ENV['USER'] be
what you're looking for?

[Robbie Clutton]

Thanks, I think I'll go for process.ENV way

Robbie

[Micheil Smith]

There could be a way. I do have a still uncompleted patch that will give access to
getting user / group info based on uid, username, gid, groupname.

Although, that patch isn't finished.

Yours,
Micheil Smith
--
BrandedCode.com

> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group.
> To post to this group, send email to nod...@googlegroups.com.
> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+un...@googlegroups.com.
> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en.
>

[Jonas Pfenniger (zimbatm)]

I would write a small parser for /etc/passwd. This is a good learning project btw.

[Narender S]

Hi, 

Have you get, how to get client ID in node webserver code ? 

[Ken Demarest]

As of nodejs v12+ you can do this both synchronously and async on Linux, with:

process.getusername = function() {

var username =  require('child_process').execSync( "whoami", { encoding: 'utf8', timeout: 1000 } );

return String(username).trim();

}

Be warned that this is the synchronous example, so bad for web servers!

[Sindre Sorhus]

I have a module for that: https://github.com/sindresorhus/username