LKBEN11720: How to get the userid or id of the logged on user on MacOS?
Symptom
You need to get the id because you want to use a LauchAgent.
Cause
This is by design.
Solution
To find the id of the current logged on user on a Mac, you can use the "id" command.
#show the id of the user
id -u
You can also show the id of some other user by doing the following:
#id of user Lubby
id -u Lubby
Hope this helps.
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Author: - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG
Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.
Latest update: 08/05/2024