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(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)

Greetings all,

I have read other posts on how to RunAsCurrentUser, but what is the syntax for current user? As an example, I know the System32 folder can be targeted as “(system folder)” or to target the Windows directory wether it is “Windows” or “WINNT” i can use “(Windows folder)”. Would the current user be “(current user)”? Basically I am looking for the BigFix equivalent of the DOS command “%currentuser%”. I need to copy two files, one to the “All Users” desktop and the other to the current user’s profile.

copy __Download\NXG Reconciliation.lnk “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\NXG Reconciliation.lnk”

copy __Download\nxg.dat “C:\Documents and Settings{name of current user as string}\nxg.dat”

Any ideas? Thank you

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(imported comment written by jessewk)

Hi Alfred,

It looks to me like your syntax should work, except you will need quotes around the first path because the filename has a space in it.

The only property of ‘current user’ is name. So you can just substitute {name of current user} wherever you’d like the name to appear. However, make sure you add ‘exists current user’ to the relevance of you action or you will get failures.

-Jesse