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Get Current Authenticated User

whoami.Rd

Retrieves the username of the currently authenticated user or the user who initiated the current workflow step.

Usage

whoami()

Value

A character string containing the username. Returns either:

  • The authenticated user from the current session configuration, or

  • The username from the audit trail of the workflow run that initiated the current step (fallback when session user is not set)

Details

The function uses a two-tier approach to identify the user:

  1. Primary: Checks the session configuration for the authenticated user (set during improveConnect())

  2. Fallback: If no session user is found, queries the audit trail to identify who created the current workflow run

This dual mechanism ensures user identification even in batch processing scenarios where explicit authentication may not be present.

References

ics1251

See also

improveConnect for authentication, loadAuditTrail for audit trail access, pwd for current step information

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Connect to improve server
improveConnect()

# Get current user
current_user <- whoami()
cat("Current user:", current_user, "\n")

# Use in logging or audit contexts
log_message <- paste("Analysis performed by:", whoami())

# Check permissions before operations
if (whoami() %in% authorized_users) {
  # Perform sensitive operation
}
} # }