[Zope] Checking Authenticated User Name???

[Jason Burke]

Greetings All,

I apologize if this question has been asked before, but I searched
(and searched, and searched), but couldn't find any hint of an
answer. The question that I have is:

What's the best way to query the logged in user's name in a
python script (not external script and not with DTML)?

The API docs mention something about an AuthenticatedUser
class, but I can't find the object anywhere in my ./Zope/lib/python
directory, and it doesn't appear to be a class in any of the zope
modules that I searched through.

I did notice a reference to something like this...

REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER.getUserName()

but, this doesn't seem like it would be any more secure than
just assigning REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER to a
variable.

I'll be eternally grateful to the person who can answer this, or
provide me with a good resource that can answer this. =)

Sincerely,

Jason Burke