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From: Erik Johnson <palehose@gmail.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: LOGNAME not properly set on FreeBSD
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 16:30:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140401213012.GF20508@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140401212239.GE20508@gmail.com>

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On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 04:22:39PM -0500, Erik Johnson wrote:
>When using "su - username" to change users, zsh is not properly setting
>the LOGNAME environment variable on FreeBSD. Example below.
>
>erik@virtubsd:~% zsh --version
>zsh 5.0.2 (amd64-portbld-freebsd9.1)
>erik@virtubsd:~% su - root
>Password:
>virtubsd# echo $LOGNAME
>erik
>virtubsd# cat .zshrc
>cat: .zshrc: No such file or directory
>virtubsd# logout
>erik@virtubsd:~% sudo chpass -s /bin/csh root
>Password:
>chpass: user information updated
>erik@virtubsd:~% su - root
>Password:
>virtubsd# echo $LOGNAME
>root
>virtubsd# logout
>
>

I just built and installed 5.0.5, and the issue persists there as well.


-- 

-Erik

"For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to
persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."  --Carl Sagan


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-01 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-01 21:22 Erik Johnson
2014-04-01 21:30 ` Erik Johnson [this message]
2014-04-02  0:27 ` Phil Pennock
2014-04-02  0:50   ` Erik Johnson
2014-04-02 20:54     ` Phil Pennock
2014-04-02 21:11       ` Erik Johnson
2014-04-02  9:23 ` Peter Stephenson
2014-04-02 19:06   ` Erik Johnson
2014-04-02 20:58     ` Peter Stephenson
2014-04-02 21:14       ` Erik Johnson

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