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    get_current_user

    (PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

    get_current_user — Gets the name of the owner of the current PHP script

    Description

    function get_current_user(): string

    Returns the name of the owner of the current PHP script.

    Parameters

    This function has no parameters.

    Return Values

    Returns the username as a string.

    Examples

    Example #1 get_current_user() example

    <?php
echo 'Current script owner: ' . get_current_user();
?>

    The above example will output something similar to:

    Current script owner: SYSTEM

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    User Contributed Notes 3 notes

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    justin samuel
    20 years ago
    to get the username of the process owner (rather than the file owner), you can use:

<?php
$processUser = posix_getpwuid(posix_geteuid());
print $processUser['name'];
?>
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    south dot bucks at gmail dot com
    13 years ago
    On Centos, the Red Hat linux clone, this instruction gives the file's OWNER (the first parameter in instruction 'chown').  It does not reveal the file's GROUP.

get_current_user()  does NOT reveal the current process' user's identity.

See:  posix_getuid() - Return the real user ID of the current process
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    s dot bond1 at lse dot ac dot uk
    19 years ago
    The information returned by get_current_user() seems to depend on the platform.

Using PHP 5.1.1 running as CGI with IIS 5.0 on Windows NT, get_current_user() returns the owner of the process running the script, *not* the owner of the script itself.

It's easy to test - create a file containing:

<?php
    echo get_current_user();
?>

Then access it through the browser. I get: IUSR_MACHINE, the Internet Guest Account on Windows, which is certainly not the owner of the script.
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