From: "Piotr Eljasiak" <eljasiak AT NO-SPAM DOT zt DOT gdansk DOT tpsa DOT pl>
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Subject: Odp: User login name ?
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> The environment variable USERNAME is, I think, set by NT: I don't have
> WinXX to hand. If you can access environment variables, you can access
> that one.

You're right, but I don't think this solution is very portable - IMHO better
way is to modify getlogin(), let's say:

char *
getlogin(void)
{
  char *p;

  p = getenv("USER");
  if (!p)
    p = getenv("LOGNAME");
  if (!p)
    p = getenv("USERNAME");
  if (!p)
    p = default_login;
  return p;
}

This way it'll work under NT, but what about WinXX ?

Piotr Eljasiak