GRASS GIS 8 Programmer's Manual  8.5.0dev(2024)-498676c526
gis/whoami.c File Reference

GIS Library - Login name functions. More...

#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <pwd.h>
#include <grass/gis.h>
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Functions

const char * G_whoami (void)
 Gets user's name. More...
 

Detailed Description

GIS Library - Login name functions.

(C) 2001-2009 by the GRASS Development Team

This program is free software under the GNU General Public License (>=v2). Read the file COPYING that comes with GRASS for details.

Author
Original author CERL

Definition in file gis/whoami.c.

Function Documentation

◆ G_whoami()

const char* G_whoami ( void  )

Gets user's name.

Returns a pointer to a string containing the user's login name.

Tries getlogin() first, then goes to the password file. However, some masscomp getlogin() fails in ucb universe because the ttyname(0) rotuine fails in ucb universe. So we check for this, too.

Returns
pointer to string ("anonymous" by default)

Definition at line 35 of file gis/whoami.c.

Referenced by G_init_all(), G_open_mail(), Vect__init_head(), and Vect_hist_command().