Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rod...@gmail.com> added the comment: Indeed, now that I google for "getlogin", it's not easy to figure out what kind of user it is supposed to return exactly.
For getuid() it seems pretty clear that we're talking about _real_ uid, though. http://www.manpagez.com/man/2/getuid/ http://linux.die.net/man/2/getuid ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10503> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com