How do I get the username of operating system active user?

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This example show you how to get operating system active user's login name. We can obtain the username of current user by reading system properties using the user.name key.

package org.kodejava.example.lang;

public class GettingUserName {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String username = System.getProperty("user.name");
        System.out.println("username = " + username);
    }
}
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