Who is the current user

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Hi,

Is there a way to know from within a recipe the name of the user running the recipe?

Cheers,
Florian

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ENV['USER’] # works on *NIX
ENV['USERNAME’] # works on Windows.

This should work on all platforms:

require 'etc'
Etc.getlogin

On 8-mei-2014, at 09:57, Florian Hehlen Florian.Hehlen@mri-group.com wrote:

Hi,

Is there a way to know from within a recipe the name of the user running the recipe?

Cheers,
Florian

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Hello Florian,

you can use the following node attribute provided by Ohai:

node['current_user']

Cheers,
Dennis

On 08.05.2014 09:57, Florian Hehlen wrote:

Hi,

Is there a way to know from within a recipe the name of the user
running the recipe?

Cheers,

Florian

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