[thelist] Retrieving user name of a Computer System by JS

Kevin D. White nonzero at well.com
Thu Feb 7 15:19:01 CST 2002


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Seriously doubt it.  JavaScript should be in a sandbox with no
unauthorized access to components outside of the browser.  This would
be a very serious security hole.  If you can get someone's user name
then you are half-way to getting their complete login.
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From: "Syed Zeeshan Haider" <zeeshan_paki at yahoo.com>
> Is it possible to retrieve the user name of a computer system with
> JavaScript? If it is possible then what would be the syntax?

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