Re: Access to CVSROOT/passwd mapped username

[Laird Nelson]

Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
> 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.

You are correct.

Internal variables are described in the Cederqvist.

Cheers,
Laird