get login in DOS

incognito41 · 12-17-2008, 11:48 AM

is there a DOS command for getting the login? in perl the command is "getlogin"

thanks all

mikesgroovin · 12-17-2008, 12:26 PM

Well depends on what you are trying to get get done. Whenever I wrote something that incorporated something to be run differently I had to use "runas" command. Check on the syntax but it's something like "runas /user:"nodename command.exe"
Basically this brings up another command prompt but is going to run it as the user you choose. If needed, it'll ask you for a password.

I used this so much for commands in windows that I got sick of typing out the whole thing so I just wrote a short perl script to do it ... Called it "su" LOL ...

But yea, using runas will allow you to run any local program either as a domain user, local user, or setup a script to do it on a foreign machine account ... You can do a lot with it

office politics · 12-17-2008, 01:58 PM

PERL getlogin Function

Quote:

Syntax
getlogin

Definition and Usage
Returns the user's name, as discovered by the system function getlogin( ). Under Windows, use the Win32::LoginName( ) function instead.

in dos (running on windows), run the following

echo %username%

this will output the envirnmental variable 'username'

incognito41 · 12-17-2008, 02:25 PM

i'm trying to write a .bat file that automatically opens to a folder on the users account. for example the desktop. i'm using different locations, but i figure the desktop is easy and everyone has this folder.

in perl i use getlogin to assign the login to a variable then concatenate it with "explorer C:\Documents and Settings\".*username*."\Desktop" and assign to a variable. then i use that variable with the system() function.

this opens an explorer window to the desktop folder.

i'm asking about DOS because not everyone has perl on their pc.

using %username%, would i use the following command:
explorer "c:\documents and settings\%username%\desktop"

thanks for the help

%username% worked out well.

thanks!