Possible to get username for the user who runs scripts?

(anonymous user)

Published 9 months ago

Product: PowerShell Universal
Version: 5.5.2

So I know in Apps, you can use $user to get the username, I can log who did what with the App. Now with scripts there doesn’t seem to be a $user variable. How can I capture the user who run the script inside the script?

All Comments (3)

ms1

Published 9 months ago

Hi,

you could go with “whoami”.
This shows the executing user:

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Published 9 months ago

I tried as you suggested however this just returns the service user PSU is running under, not the logged in user who executed the script, which is what I wanted.

Published 9 months ago

You could do something like:

Get-PSUJob -Script "Yourscript" | ft starttime, identity

Identity will contain the user that has started the job. Then you can filter it to only return the current/last_complete run and pull out identity from that.