Identify user that ran process/executable

[markmcgookin]

Hi there,

Is there any way in C# to determine which user kicked off your application? I have an app that a third party piece of software (Nokia Intellisync) kicks off, but we aren't sure which user it is doing this under, I thought it would be the intellisync user, but we are not sure and just wanted to know if there was a way of outputting the username of the user that executed an application.

Thanks for your time folks,

Mark

[Plater]

? The username a process is running as is available in the taskmanager (ctrl+alt+del)
In your own application, I think it's Environment.Use r or something

[PRR]

try this code...

try
                    {
                        ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("Select * from Win32_Process where Name='notepad.exe'");

                        foreach (ManagementObject obj in searcher.Get())
                        {
                            Console.WriteLine(obj["Name"].ToString());

                            object[] o = new object[2];
                            obj.InvokeMethod("GetOwner", o);
                            
                            Console.WriteLine("User: " + o[0].ToString());
                            Console.WriteLine("Computer Name: " + o[1].ToString());
                        }
                    }


                    catch (Exception ee)
                    {

                    }

add reference to System.Manageme nt

[markmcgookin]

Thanks for the replies folks,

Environment.UserName;

Is perfect for what I needed. Thanks for the other code though, useful for finding out who is using another process.

Cheers!

Mark