How to get Windows service username in Java?

Question

If I run a Java process as background service then System.getProperty("user.name") returns ever the hostname with an additional $ character.

Is there a solution to get the real user name of the process which I can see in the Windows task manager?

Answer 1

You can obtain the user who owns the current Java process using ProcessHandle.current().info().user().get() . It should be the same information provided by the system's task list.

The documentation for ProcessHandle is here .