macOS Retrieve (full)username

Retrieve username

The code snippet below will retrieve the current user's username (eg joe). In the example code below, the function to retrieve the username is called from a menu item.

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Uses
  CocoaAll,
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function NSUserName: CFStringRef
   external name '_NSUserName';
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procedure TForm1.MenuItem21Click(Sender: TObject);
var
  usernameStr: ShortString;
  status: Boolean = false;
begin
  status := CFStringGetPascalString(CFStringRef(NSusername),@usernameStr,255,CFStringGetSystemEncoding);
  if(status = true) then
     ShowMessage(usernameStr)
  else
     ShowMessage('Error retrieving username');
end;

Retrieve full username

The code snippet below will retrieve the current user's full username (eg Joe Bloggs). In the example code below, the function to retrieve the full username is called from a menu item.

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Uses
  CocoaAll,
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function NSFullUserName: CFStringRef
   external name '_NSFullUserName';
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procedure TForm1.MenuItem22Click(Sender: TObject);
var
  fullUsernameStr: ShortString;
  status: Boolean = false;
begin
  status := CFStringGetPascalString(CFStringRef(NSFullUserName),@fullUsernameStr,255,CFStringGetSystemEncoding);
  if(status = true) then
     ShowMessage(fullUsernameStr)
  else
     ShowMessage('Error retrieving full username');
end;

See also

• NSProcessInfo