First make sure you have SessionMiddleware and AuthenticationMiddleware middlewares added to your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting. The current user is in request object, you can get it by: def sample_view(request): current_user = request.user print current_user.id request.user will give you a User object representing the currently logged-in user. If a user isn’t currently logged in, request.user will be … Read more
Environment.UserName calls GetUserName within advapi32.dll. This means that if you’re impersonating another user, this property will reflect that. Thread.CurrentPrincipal has a setter and can be changed programmatically. (This is not impersonation btw.) WindowsIdentity is your current windows identity, if any. It will not necessarily reflect the user, think ASP.NET with FormsAuthentication. Then the WindowsIdentity will … Read more
I am not sure why, but someone added an answer and then deleted it quickly after… I was fast enough to catch it though, and after checking, it is the shortest and most effective way of doing what I asked before: require(“os”).userInfo().username The only problem is, in Windows 10, it returns the first name of … Read more