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$UserName
$UserName
gives the login name of the user who invoked the
Mathematica
kernel, as recorded by the operating system.
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On Unix and similar operating systems,
$UserName
is derived from the UID associated with the
Mathematica
kernel process.
On operating systems where no login name can be found,
$UserName
is
None
.
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