getting user name

[pyrojoe333]

I need to get the name of the user that is logged in, via applescript. anybody got a clue?

 

[symphonix]

You could call the "users" shell command. It will return the short usernames of each user logged into the system.

You could do it like this:
set this_data to do shell script "users"

this would return a variable "this_data" that contains a text list of short usernames, I think...

 

[Darkshadow]

If you're going to do it that way, use the command whoami rather than users. whoami only lists the currently logged in user.