Question
Central Provident Fund Singapore (CPF)
SG
Last activity: 1 Jul 2020 3:42 EDT
How to capture the windows login username into a property
Requirement:
Capture the user name i.e., login name of windows OS.
Existing scenario:
Our application is SSO enabled and when ever end user logs in we will be able to capture the user details but if we try to access the application using non ldap url we are unable to capture the exact user who has logged in. There are few generic user id's (ex: adminuser, adminuser_backup) which will be used in production and we are not sure who is using them in the team(40+).
Goal:
The only solution for us is to capture the windows login user name. But I am not sure how we can capture that system name and bring that value to pega property.
Let me know if it is possible to capture that.
Please share is there are any other possibilities/solutions for this.
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Capgemini Norge
NO
Hi RAVITEJAS5476,
At first, we don't have any standard method to fetch Windows OS logged in users in the browser because it might lead to security risk if we can pull system information from a webpage.
But, there is a way by using ActiveXObject which will work only on Internet Explorer.
Here is the script to fetch username of logged in user from the browser.
<script>
var objUserInfo = new ActiveXObject("WScript.network");
var uname = objUserInfo.UserName;
window.alert(uname);
</script>
Try this script once in the Internet Explorer with standalone HTML file. If it is throwing any issues on the browser console, check out this thread from Stackoverflow.
If you are ok with this implementation, Insert this code inside Pega by using non-autogenrated section and utilize Pega JS API to set var "uname" value to the clipboard property.
Good Luck !