Getting Unix login name or home dir from client-side JavaScript

[Toralf Lund]

Is there any way at all I can get a user's login name from within
JavaScript on Unix/Linux with Mozilla browser. If not, how about the
home directory? I know there are *usually* variables accessible via
navigator.preferences() that contain the info, but I have found none
that can *always* be expected to exist.

- Toralf

 

[Grant Wagner]

Is there any way at all I can get a user's login name from within
JavaScript on Unix/Linux with Mozilla browser. If not, how about the
home directory? I know there are *usually* variables accessible via
navigator.preferences() that contain the info, but I have found none
that can *always* be expected to exist.

- Toralf

You have no access to that information in client-side JavaScript in the
default security environment.

Signed scripts can access window.navigator.preference() on Netscape 4,
but there does not appear to be anything like that on Mozilla: <url:
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domref/dom_window_ref.html#1004028 /> or
IE: <url:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/objects/obj_navigator.asp
/>.

Even in Netscape 4, the list of things you can get from
window.navigator.preference() is fairly limited: <url:
http://devedge.netscape.com/library/manuals/2000/javascript/1.3/reference/nav.html#1194000
/>. The list doesn't seem to include the current OS user or the home
directory path.


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