the user's name under OSX

[Scott Morrow]

Hello Mark,
Good to know.  I was trying to populate the "Name:" field of a fake  
administrative password query dialog.  I've since gone a different  
route and used an "official" Apple dialog (or "dialogue" for some)  
that takes care of this for me. However, I suspect I may yet have need  
of this again sometime.
-Scott

On Dec 20, 2008, at 3:20 AM, Mark Smith wrote:

> Scott - I didn't know about dscl either, but it seems to work here  
> on 10.4.11 as well.
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
> On 19 Dec 2008, at 22:01, Scott Morrow wrote:
>
>> Hello Gordy,
>> Thanks for that. I was (am!) ignorant of dscl
>> I'll continue looking for something (additional) that might work in  
>> earlier versions.
>>
>> -Scott
>>
>> On Dec 19, 2008, at 5:14 AM, Gordon Tillman wrote:
>>
>>> Scott in 10.5 that information is stored in Directory Services.   
>>> The dscl command is used to interact with that.  For example:
>>>
>>> $ dscl . -read /Users/gordy RealName
>>> RealName:
>>> Gordon Tillman
>>>
>>> (that's me!)
>>>
>>> --gordy
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 19, 2008, at 06:07, Scott Morrow wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to get the user's name under OSX. I can get the  
>>>> environment variable
>>>>
>>>> $USER
>>>>
>>>> but this only returns the user's short name.  Any ideas for  
>>>> getting the full name?
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