Hi--
On Oct 31, 2008, at 11:33 AM, Frédéric Perrin wrote:
When I « su - » to root (after being logged in as my normal user), the
LOGNAME env variable is still set to my previous user, as in :
,----
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% /usr/bin/su -l
| Password:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# echo $USER - $LOGNAME
| root - fred
`----
As far as I can tell, this contradicts the fine manual that says :
,----
| -l Simulate a full login. The environment is discarded
except for
| HOME, SHELL, PATH, TERM, and USER.
`----
So I would have expected LOGNAME to be either empty or set by some
shell
startup script to be root. So, why is LOGNAME still equal to my
previous
user ? (and where is it set ? « grep -r LOGNAME /etc » doesn't turn up
anything...)
When you "su -l" it invokes /usr/bin/login, which per "man login" sets
up up $LOGNAME:
The login utility enters information into the environment (see
environ(7)) specifying the user's home directory (HOME), command
inter-
preter (SHELL), search path (PATH), terminal type (TERM) and
user name
(both LOGNAME and USER).
I believe it looks up the actual username from the wtmp record
associated with your open tty, so $USER corresponds to the effective
userid, but $LOGNAME corresponds to the actual username used to login,
aka your "real userid"...?
Regards,
--
-Chuck
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