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These are things the system may know about the current user.
Inherits from:
nsISupports
Last changed in Gecko 1.7 Implemented by: @mozilla.org/userinfo;1. To get the service, use:
var userInfo = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/userinfo;1"]
.getService(Components.interfaces.nsIUserInfo);
You can then look at the userInfo object's attributes to learn what the system knows about the user.
Attributes
| Attribute | Type | Description | Linux | Mac OSX | OS/2 | Windows |
domain |
string |
Read only. | The computer's domain, or the domain of its hostname. | The domain portion of the email address, if available. | Not supported. | Not supported. |
emailAddress |
string |
Read only. | The concatenation of the user's login name and the computer's domain. | The user's email address as saved in the system address book. | Not supported. | Not supported. |
fullname |
wstring |
Read only. | The user's full name. | The user's full name. | Not supported. | Not supported. |
username |
string |
Read only. | The user's login name. | The user's login name. | Not supported. | The user's login name. |