/*------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * username.c * get user name * * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2021, PostgreSQL Global Development Group * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California * * IDENTIFICATION * src/common/username.c * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ #ifndef FRONTEND #include "postgres.h" #else #include "postgres_fe.h" #endif #include #include #include "common/username.h" /* * Returns the current user name in a static buffer * On error, returns NULL and sets *errstr to point to a palloc'd message */ const char * get_user_name(char **errstr) { #ifndef WIN32 struct passwd *pw; uid_t user_id = geteuid(); *errstr = NULL; errno = 0; /* clear errno before call */ pw = getpwuid(user_id); if (!pw) { *errstr = psprintf(_("could not look up effective user ID %ld: %s"), (long) user_id, errno ? strerror(errno) : _("user does not exist")); return NULL; } return pw->pw_name; #else /* Microsoft recommends buffer size of UNLEN+1, where UNLEN = 256 */ /* "static" variable remains after function exit */ static char username[256 + 1]; DWORD len = sizeof(username); *errstr = NULL; if (!GetUserName(username, &len)) { *errstr = psprintf(_("user name lookup failure: error code %lu"), GetLastError()); return NULL; } return username; #endif } /* * Returns the current user name in a static buffer or exits */ const char * get_user_name_or_exit(const char *progname) { const char *user_name; char *errstr; user_name = get_user_name(&errstr); if (!user_name) { fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s\n", progname, errstr); exit(1); } return user_name; }