Getting Currently Logged-On User Name

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This article discusses how to retrieve the user name of the user who is currently logged on to the target machine using the GetUserNameA Windows API.

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This article discusses how to retrieve the user name of the user who is currently logged on to the target machine using the GetUserNameA Windows API.

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The following is the code:

//you must first prototype the function
prototype BOOL Advapi32.GetUserNameA (BYREF STRING, BYREF INT);

Then call this function in your script as in the following example:

function GetUserName()
BOOL bReturn;
INT nStringSize;
STRING szUserName;
begin
  nStringSize = 256;
  bReturn= GetUserNameA(szUserName, nStringSize);
end;

The string variable szUserName contains the name of the user that is currently logged on to the target machine.

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For more information on using the Windows API function, see MSDN topic GetUserName.

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