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Asked: 2026-05-18T06:11:15+00:00

My app is written in Objective-C. How can I get the user name and

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My app is written in Objective-C. How can I get the user name and home directory of the currently logged in user through directory services?

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My Cocoa app gets the current username and home directory with getenv(“USER”), getenv(“HOME”). Apparently this doesn’t work right if the user is logged in through directory services. I am doing a chdir($HOME) and then running this command:
login -fp $USER
and it rejects it because, I think, login goes through the directory service to authenticate the user, and his username in that system may not be the same as the value of $USER. Likewise, he may have a home directory specified in directory services that is different than $HOME.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try NSUserName() and NSHomeDirectory().

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