diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 58304aabef686c4e13b5a16407830fab5732a6fe..c574958390853c2035e2ce0681fa9401d7fd607d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ Here is a sample of what to add to your composer.json:
 {
     "extra": {
         "dorgflow": {
-            "username": "jurgenhaas",
             "projects": {
                 "drupal/colorbox_field_formatter": "8.x-1.x",
                 "drupal/dimension": "8.x-1.x",
@@ -22,4 +21,4 @@ Here is a sample of what to add to your composer.json:
 }
 ```
 
-The, to gat it to work, simply call `composer require lakedrops/dorgflow` and everything will be traken care off for you automatically - even if you update your Drupal project at any time in the future, the development environments for your defined projects will be kept in place and properly configured.
+Then, to get it to work, simply call `composer require lakedrops/dorgflow` and everything will be traken care off for you automatically - even if you update your Drupal project at any time in the future, the development environments for your defined projects will be kept in place and properly configured.
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index e48e4973f20f1e799486f23ba751bfdee0825242..d7126b268ee96ef4a9cd25da588c21dc2c4d960d 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
     "require": {
         "composer-plugin-api": "^1.0.0",
         "cypresslab/gitelephant": "~1.0",
+        "lakedrops/dotenv": "^0.1",
         "php": ">=5.4.5"
     },
     "autoload": {
diff --git a/src/Handler.php b/src/Handler.php
index 9fc8fd348113ba88df9253b1f4773992a7327aa4..53822783bf48f1926be008598a83094d548f7280 100644
--- a/src/Handler.php
+++ b/src/Handler.php
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ use Composer\Composer;
 use Composer\IO\IOInterface;
 use Composer\Script\Event as ScriptEvent;
 use GitElephant\Repository;
+use LakeDrops\Component\Dotenv\Dotenv;
 use Symfony\Component\Filesystem\Filesystem;
 
 class Handler {
@@ -76,10 +77,11 @@ class Handler {
    * @return array
    */
   protected function getOptions() {
+    $env = new Dotenv('dorgflow', $this->io);
     $extra = $this->composer->getPackage()->getExtra() + ['dorgflow' => []];
     $options = $extra['dorgflow'] + [
       'projects' => [],
-      'username' => '',
+      'username' => $env->receive('drupal_org_username', 'Drupal.org username', getenv('USER')),
     ];
     return $options;
   }