On Wednesday, April 12, 2000 5:24 AM, Rodent of Unusual Size
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> Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
> >
> > As I understand it, the USER variable is set to the username of
> > the server-local user actually accessing the repository. In the
> > case of a pserver-accessed repository, with usernames mapped
> > through the CVSROOT/passwd file mechanism, this will typically
> > be the value of the third field in the matching entry in the
> > CVSROOT/passwd file.
> >
> > So.. is there any way to get the *remote* username? The one that
> > was mapped to the local one? The one that matches the *first* field
> > in that entry?
>
> A little experimentation reveals something (I find) confusing.
> CVSROOT/loginfo contains a line like this:
>
> DEFAULT $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/foo $USER %s
>
> The Perl CVSROOT/foo script, however, shows different values for
> $ARGV[0] (the $USER above) and $ENV{"USER"} (the actual environment).
> The former is the remote (client) username I want, whilst the
> latter is the local (server) username.
>
> It looks as though whatever does the expansion of $USER is using
> an internal table, not the environment, since the admin-file
> expansion of $USER differs from the value in the environment table.
>
> I haven't yet gone to the sources to track this down; it's with CVS
> 1.10.2. Can anyone else confirm/deny the behaviour I'm seeing?
> Am I nuts, or missing something obvious? Or is there really an
> overloading of the variable named USER?
There is indeed overloading of the USER variable. From memory this is
documented in Cederqvist, but I can't remember where. This caught me for a
while as well (I went as far as creating a patch to fix this behaviour)!
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