stl - How to use std::find/std::find_if with a vector of custom class objects?

Question

I have a class representing a user called Nick and I want to use std::find_if on it, where I want to find if the userlist vector has an object included with the same username I pass in. I did a few attempts by trying to create a new Nick object for the username I want to test and overloading the == operator and then trying to use find/find_if on the object:

    std::vector<Nick> userlist;
    std::string username = "Nicholas";

if (std::find(userlist.begin(), userlist.end(), new Nick(username, false)) != userlist.end())) {
    std::cout << "found";
}

I have overloaded the == operator so comparing Nick == Nick2 should work, but the function returns error C2678: binary '==' : no operator found which takes a left-hand operand of type 'Nick' (or there is no acceptable conversion).

Here is my Nick class for reference:

class Nick {
private:
    Nick() {
        username = interest = email = "";
                    is_op = false;
    };
public:
    std::string username;
    std::string interest;
    std::string email;
    bool is_op;

    Nick(std::string d_username, std::string d_interest, std::string d_email, bool d_is_op) {
        Nick();
        username = d_username;
        interest = d_interest;
        email = d_email;
        is_op = d_is_op;
    };
    Nick(std::string d_username, bool d_is_op) {
        Nick();
        username = d_username;
        is_op = d_is_op;
    };
    friend bool operator== (Nick &n1, Nick &n2) {
        return (n1.username == n2.username);
    };
    friend bool operator!= (Nick &n1, Nick &n2) {
        return !(n1 == n2);
    };
};

Answer 1

If you are using C++0X you can use a simple lambda expression

std::string username = "Nicholas";    
std::find_if(userlist.begin(), userlist.end(), [username](Nick const& n){
    return n.username == username;
})