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Check for user name in Novell
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From
03/10/1997 09:37:53
 
 
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03/10/1997 08:46:20
Jerry Tovar
Dana Corporation Dana It
Maumee, Ohio, United States
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00052969
Message ID:
00053047
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27
>>I need to access the username or logon ID
>>from vfp50? Can vfp50 perform logic
>>on the username comming from Novell?
>
>
>Robert,
>
>Our Novell Administrator inserted this code into the login script.
>
>DOS SET long_name = %login_name%
>
>I'm not sure about the exact syntax but this is more or less it. What this does is sets each user's
>login name to a environmental variable of your choice, such as "long_name" in this example.
>
>So whoever logs into this machine, his "long_name" is set to his login name.
>
>We then use the VFP GETENV() function to retrieve the information like this.
>
>l_userid = GETENV("long_name")
>
>Another solution is to purchase a third party product like GPLIB that has these functions
>build in and don't require anything placed into the Novell login script.
>
>Jerry Tovar

Hi Jerry - thanks for the great idea... :)
Robert Keith
Independent Developer
San Antonio, Texas
E-mail address:
rebelrob1@yahoo.com
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