whoami

Module fallible

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Fallible versions of the whoami APIs.

Some of the functions in the root module will return “Unknown” or “localhost” on error. This might not be desirable in some situations. The functions in this module all return a Result.

Functions§

  • account
    Get the user’s account name; usually just the username, but may include an account server hostname.
  • account_os
    Get the user’s account name; usually just the username, but may include an account server hostname.
  • devicename
    Get the device name (also known as “Pretty Name”).
  • devicename_os
    Get the device name (also known as “Pretty Name”).
  • distro
    Get the name of the operating system distribution and (possibly) version.
  • hostname
    Get the host device’s hostname.
  • realname
    Get the user’s real (full) name.
  • realname_os
    Get the user’s real (full) name.
  • username
    Get the user’s username.
  • username_os
    Get the user’s username.