PA_GetUserName

version 2003

PA_GetUserName (userName)

The routine PA_GetUserName fills the string buffer pointed to by userName with the name of the current user.

This is like the Current user command.

Depending on default settings or on previous calls to PA_UsePStrings or PA_UseCStrings , userName will be a Pascal or an ANSI C string.

The max length of a user or group name is 31 chars (32 with the length byte or the 0 terminated)

Get user info.

   void GetSomeCurrentUserInfo(char *name, long *id)
   {
      if(name)
         PA_GetUserName(name);
      if(id)
         PA_GetCurrentUserID();
   }
 

Current user , PA_GetCurrentUserID .