Function users::get_current_username

pub fn get_current_username() -> Option<OsString>

Returns the username of the user running the process.

This function to return None if the current user does not exist, which could happed if they were deleted after the program started running.

libc functions used

• getuid
• getpwuid_r

Examples

use users::get_current_username;

match get_current_username() {
    Some(uname) => println!("Running as user with name {:?}", uname),
    None        => println!("The current user does not exist!"),
}