Received: from magus.postgresql.org (magus.postgresql.org [87.238.57.229]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C804F12DEACC for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:52:43 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mailout04.ims-firmen.de ([213.174.32.250]) by magus.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SMKd5-00087B-MA for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:52:42 +0000 Received: from mailin01.ims-firmen.de ([192.168.1.141]) by mailout02.ims-firmen.de with esmtp (envelope-from ) id 1SMKcs-00070v-Oi for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:52:26 +0200 Received: from [87.170.200.165] (helo=a-kretschmer.de) by mailin01.ims-firmen.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (envelope-from ) id 1SMKbi-0005FW-Ht for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:51:14 +0200 Received: from kretschmer by a-kretschmer.de with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SMKcr-0007PD-Cs for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:52:25 +0200 Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:52:25 +0200 From: Andreas Kretschmer To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: getting the OS user name Message-ID: <20120423145225.GA28321@tux> References: <4654350.cBryTEqMC6@linux-12> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4654350.cBryTEqMC6@linux-12> X-OS: Debian/GNU Linux - weil ich es mir Wert bin! X-GPG-Fingerprint: EE16 3C01 7B9C 10F7 2C8B 3B86 4DB3 D9EE 7F45 84DA X-Message-Flag: "Windows" is not the answer. "Windows" is the question and the answer is "no"! X-Lugdd: Gerd Kube X-Info: My name is root. Just root. And I am licensed to kill -9 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) X-Archive-Number: 201204/45 X-Sequence-Number: 36522 John Fabiani wrote: > Hi, > In my app it is possible to login as one name and use a different name to > login to postgres. > > Is it possible to get the actual OS login name using plsql. Since you can login to an remote database server: no. Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds) "If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknown) Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889°