https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/getuid-function/m-p/2720128#M62881 I am writing a small c code. <BR />Is there a function which gives the username directly instead of uid ? <BR /><BR />Thanks Wed, 08 May 2002 23:58:40 GMT Krishnan Viswanathan 2002-05-08T23:58:40Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/getuid-function/m-p/2720128#M62881 I am writing a small c code. <BR />Is there a function which gives the username directly instead of uid ? <BR /><BR />Thanks Wed, 08 May 2002 23:58:40 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/getuid-function/m-p/2720128#M62881 Krishnan Viswanathan 2002-05-08T23:58:40Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/getuid-function/m-p/2720129#M62882 Hi:<BR /><BR />You can use the getlogin function, although the proper procedure is to call getlogin(); if that returns a NULL then you should call getpwuid(getuid()) to return a pointer to a passwd struct.<BR /><BR />Man 3 getlogin, getpwuid for details.<BR /><BR />Regards, Clay Thu, 09 May 2002 00:12:55 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-hp-ux/getuid-function/m-p/2720129#M62882 A. Clay Stephenson 2002-05-09T00:12:55Z