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danneth
danneth

Reputation: 2791

Can an addon be made aware of username/process owner

Ok, so I'm guessing the answer to this question is no (sensing privacy issues here), but let's check anyway.

Is it possible to read the username of the computer user (think SSO)? This could perhaps be read from the owner of the Firefox process.

I'm not really seeing anything about it in the SDK docs, and searching for username just gives me a bunch of password managers.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 36

Answers (1)

therealjeffg
therealjeffg

Reputation: 5830

api-utils/environment provides access to the user's shell environment variables:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/sdk/latest/packages/api-utils/environment.html

Here is some basic usage:

https://builder.addons.mozilla.org/package/156370/latest/

Depending on what info you need, you can run system commands with the priviledges of Firefox itself to get info from, say, the Windows registry. You should be aware that malicious use of code like this would not be allowed when your add-on is reviewed by the Mozilla Addons site.

Upvotes: 1

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