Bugs item #1750013, was opened at 2007-07-08 22:02
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>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Serge Noiraud (snoiraud)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: os.getlogin should use the DISPLAY and not the tty
Initial Comment:
Hi,
I have the following with gramps on kubuntu ( KDE ).
My terminals are "konsole". They don't register their pty
in utmp and I think they are correct. We are already logged. so if we register
again for each konsole, we have a bad user count.
In these case, os.getlogin() return :
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
I think getlogin should use the DISPLAY instead of the tty when we get this
error.
to correct this problem I use :
try:
user=os.getlogin()
except:
user=os.environ.get("USER")
but I'm not sure os.environ.get return the good value on every OSes ...
I have tested too :
except:
user = pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]
What is the best solution to this problem.
I looked at all bugs about getlogin and I saw we should avoid this function.
What is in this case the function we should use and which works correctly on
every OS ( Linux, Unices, Windows, MAC OS/X, ... )
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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2007-07-10 10:45
Message:
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os.getlogin is a wrapper around the getlogin(3) POSIX function. It is
important that Python exposes the function as-is, rather than trying to be
more clever than the operating system designers. getlogin(3) is specified
as "getlogin() returns a pointer to a string containing the name of the
user logged in on the controlling terminal of the process, or a null
pointer if this information cannot be determined." See the man page for the
precise list of error conditions; ENOENT is returned if there is no utmp
entry.
Whether konsole is correct in not listing the controlling terminal in
utmp, I don't know. Notice that xterm (which should be considered an
authority in such matters) *does* create an utmp entry.
It's not clear to me how DISPLAY could be used at all, but even if it
could, using it here would be incorrect.
Closing as invalid.
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