Get current logged in user name command line (CMD)

In Windows OS, we can find the current logged in username from windows command line. The logged in user information is stored in environment variables. So just by printing the value in these environment variables we can get to know the login name.

To know the login name of the currently logged in user we can run the below command.

This works on all releases of Windows OS(Windows XP, Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows 7).

There is another command whoami which tells us the domain name also.

Both of these options to find user name can be useful in batch files to write code in such a way that it works for every user. For example, if your batch file need to access a user specific folder, say Application data, then you can refer the directory as ‘C:\users\%username%\appdata‘.

how to know the current user password in windows 7?

run cmd in admin mode and type net user (user name) (12345)
then your password change to 12345

Use this command:
net user “%username%” “%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%”

Suggestion to use command:
net user “%username%” “%random%%random%%random%%random%%random%”
will change your current users password to something completely random

I don’t think it would be possible to find the password as it is stored in encrypted form and not in plain text. However, there are lots of third party tools to reset a administrator password if you have forgotten the same.

when i go onto command promt it says my username is “user” and say c:/users>user

I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM. HAVE YOU SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM YET?

The whoami command does not work in Windows XP without the SP2 Support Tools download. The command is not native to the OS. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18546

Can the %username% command be used to determine the user logged into a differnent computer. ex I am at computer x and want to know who is logged on to computer y. I can remote to the c drive using RDP \\computery\c$ I would also like to definively likt to know who is logged on to that computer. Possible?

No, it does not work that way. %username% always shows the user of the current login session. When you run it on remote computer, I am not sure what you would get but it won’t tell you who logged on to the machine.

You can use PSEXEC to run a command on another PC. It can be found in the PS Tools package available for download on many sites.

With System Internal tools (free http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897545.aspx )
psloggedon \\targetComputer
or
psloggedon \\192.167.0.0

Is it possible to get current User Name when it’s an AD where each user has an ID?
For example, if I run whoami or %username% I get “XX00000” but I want to get “Name SecondName”. I know windows has this info because I see my full name in Start Menu (Win 7).
Thanks

net user %username% for accounts stored in local or net user %username% /domain for accounts stored on domain.

you know this answer…?… anyone please let me know solution for georges’ question.. thanks in advance..

I would also really like a solution for this

If you are asking to find the full name or Surname run this as administrator.
net user
It will show you all the information about that user, full name, logon time, the group this user belongs to, the time it is allowed to login all of that.

When I run whoami from the cmdline I get my username. However I want to find my username from within SQL Server. If I shell out and run whoami I get the sql service user . Any ideas?

what username lets you look at the history

what does it mean by username

Please show screen shot

I have 2 accounts one for me and one for my nephews and nieces so I forgot my password because it makes me change it every other month it seems like and idk why… but I looked up a way to change it by going into the command prompts but it’s only giving me the kids for net user it says mine doesn’t exist I could use some help asap

I need to find my administrator account password when its logged in so is there way i can do it from cmd to find my password without changing it ?

does we have a vraiable like %username% for user group name ?

Windows 10: Find Who is Logged in

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If you’re wondering how to find out who is currently logged into a Microsoft Windows 10 computer, there are several ways to proceed. Here are a few common methods you can use from a remote computer or logged into the local computer you are querying.

WhoAmI Command

The “whoami” command displays the user you are currently logged in and using in Windows.

1. Hold down the Windows Key, and press “R” to bring up the Run window.
2. Type “CMD“, then press “Enter” to open a command prompt.
3. At the command prompt, type the following then press “Enter“:
   whoami
4. The computer name or domain followed by the username is displayed.

Query User Command

This command allows you to see all users currently logged into the computer.

Locally

1. Hold down the Windows Key, and press “R” to bring up the Run window.
2. Type “CMD“, then press “Enter” to open a command prompt.
3. At the command prompt, type the following then press “Enter“:
   query user
4. The computer name or domain followed by the username is displayed.

Remotely

1. Hold down the Windows Key, and press “R” to bring up the Run window.
2. Type “CMD“, then press “Enter” to open a command prompt.
3. At the command prompt, type the following then press “Enter“:
   query user /server:computername
   Replace “computername” with the actual computer name of the system you are querying.
   
4. The computer name or domain followed by the username is displayed.

Task Manager

1. Right-click the taskbar, then select “Task Manager“.
2. Select the “Users” tab.
3. Details on the users logged into the machine are displayed.

1. Hold down the Windows Key, and press “R” to bring up the Run window.
2. Type “CMD“, then press “Enter” to open a command prompt.
3. At the command prompt, type the following then press “Enter“:
   WMIC /NODE:»computername» COMPUTERSYSTEM GET USERNAME
   Replace “computername” with the actual computer name of the system you are querying. You can also replace “computername” with the IP address of the system.
   WMIC /NODE:192.168.1.1 COMPUTERSYSTEM GET USERNAME

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How to change username of logged in account.

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I bought a PC from a seller. And he had an account logged-in in the PC. There is no password. And his username is displayed everytime I turn on my PC. I couldn’t find anyway to change it.

Please help if there is anyway to do so.

I am Dave, an Independent Advisor, I will help you with this . . .

It depends on what type of account that seller created on the PC, fi that is linked to a Microsoft Account, you cannot change the name, because you would not have access to their Microsoft Account

1
If that is just a local account, open File Explorer

In the Address Bar in File Explorer, paste this and press Enter:

Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\User Accounts

On the resulting Control Panel window, click ‘Change your Account Name’

2
If that user profile is linked to a Microsoft Account, you will need to create a new Admin User Profile and delete the old one . .

Open the Settings App

Go to Accounts — Family and other People

Click ‘Add someone else to this PC’

Follow the prompts to create a new account

Close the settings app

Log out of that user account

Log into your new account

Click the Start Button, type netplwiz and hit Enter

In the resulting dialog, select the old account and click ‘Remove’

That’s It, your new Admin Account will replace the old account

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I am working in an internet application.Below are the technologies I am using in this project:

Angularjs and no server side framework.

Below is client requirement:

There is a login page.When user load the login page say http://mytime.com:8000 I want to auto populate the windows user(loged in user name) name in user name text box in login page.

In IE 11 I browser I was doing getting the windows username by using the javascript as below:

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Even if the existing code works for you, ActiveX controls is needed to be on in security settings.

Instead of making this work for each OS/browser, it’s a good idea to use AJAX to call a server-side method returning the logged in username. You can have a HTML control to hold username.

Thanks Aishwarya.Yes I know It needs to be on in security settings . As I have mentioned below code is working in IE 11(after enable on security settings) but I want to use it on window 10 Edge browser.

var objUserInfo = new ActiveXObject ( «WScript.network» );

Check if this helps:

No help from the above URLs.

Can any one help me .

I ran into the same issue as yours and I got a solution for this.

The suggestion to use the ActiveXObject would not function on Chrome, Firefox and any other browsers than Internet Explorer.

You can only get current Windows User Name from the machine by means of ASP.NET server side code.

but this can only work if you:

• enable Windows Authentication for the website in its properties in IIS server Control Panel
• enable ASP.NET impersonation there too
• disable Anonymous Authentication for the website in IIS server Control Panel

depending upon the completeness of the installation of the IIS package such as «Feature Delegation» package, I recommend you to add the following in the web.config file:

enter these lines:

See below a legit explanation for the two nodes and

Last, but not least, to make sure the Windows Authentication works on your IIS Webserver:

Set these properties on for Windows Authentication:

How do I get the current Windows logged-in user’s username?

I am developing an intranet application using ASP.NET MVC 4. I am using custom forms authentication. When the user accesses the application I want to take the user’s Windows logged-in username and check that username in my database. But I don’t know how to take that username. I try to take it using the following code:

This gives me the username when I run from Visual Studio, but when I host my application on IIS it gives a weird value. I also tried to use

but no use. Is there a way to get the user’s Windows logged-in username before authentication?

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It sounds like you may need to consider mixed-mode authentication. I.e. Windows and Forms authentication. The thing is they don’t necessarily play well together.

The following article describes the problem and how to overcome it. The thrust of the article centres around how a 401 challenge (Windows authentication) and 302 redirect (forms authentication) are incompatible in > IIS 7 integrated mode and a way to use a couple of forms and HTTP pipeline interception to get at user details. I used the approach successfully for a large public sector client (albeit for a webforms application). I’m sure the principles are the same.

I forgot to add in the code examples the right place to look for Windows authentication credentials are presented. It’s been a while, so I can’t remember it off the top of my head.