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dmonckton · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 8:43 am Post subject: @env(USERNAME) and Window7

Hi All

I've got a really annoying network admin problem. When I use
@env(USERNAME) remotely on Windows7 machines it returns nothing!
Is this some sort of security feature? We do have McAfee VirusScan
Enterprise 8.7.0i running on all machines could this be blocking the
info?

Thanks

David...

cnodnarb · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:08 pm Post subject:

Interesting stuff.

Try

cnodnarb · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:13 pm Post subject:

I think that should work, it appears to me on modern OS username is an elevated variable that returns SYSTEM. (This is just a quick once over)

USERPROFILE is a normal variable that should return something similar to 'C:\Users\Brandon'

dmonckton · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:04 pm Post subject:

This seems to be a problem with winlogon on Window 7 machines.
I run my script from...

HLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

But the username environmental variable does not seem to be available
that early in the bootup sequence. I have tried a 60 second wait in the
script but I still can not get the username variable. I'm not sure if this is
still a security thing or I need to wait longer. I am going to try the
userprofile variable instead without a wait to see if that works.

Thanks

David..

cnodnarb · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:56 pm Post subject:

Have you tried

cnodnarb · Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:21 pm Post subject:

Just in case @env(userprofile) NOT USERNAME doesn't work, here's a craptastic little workaround I hacked together for fun in vbscript