topic Re: Username of the current user (python geoprocessing tool) in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/username-of-the-current-user-python-geoprocessing/m-p/487944#M16310 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It's been years but have you figured it out how to do this? I have the same problem</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:34:13 GMT GiacomoFavaron 2020-01-24T11:34:13Z Username of the current user (python geoprocessing tool) https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/username-of-the-current-user-python-geoprocessing/m-p/487943#M16309 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Is there a way to get the username of the current user within a python geoprocessing tool?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The username must be the name of the user logged on to my IIS web application with an ArcGIS Web Adapter. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The python script is published to an ArcGIS Server 10.1 with Active Directory and Web Tier authentication.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have tried:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code">import getpass getpass.getuser()</PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV><BR /><BR /><SPAN>However, this always returns "arcgis" (properly the ArcGIS Server service user identity).</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:28:08 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/username-of-the-current-user-python-geoprocessing/m-p/487943#M16309 MortenHansen 2013-01-14T14:28:08Z Re: Username of the current user (python geoprocessing tool) https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/username-of-the-current-user-python-geoprocessing/m-p/487944#M16310 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>It's been years but have you figured it out how to do this? I have the same problem</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:34:13 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/username-of-the-current-user-python-geoprocessing/m-p/487944#M16310 GiacomoFavaron 2020-01-24T11:34:13Z