* no $USER when root
@ 1997-06-21 19:30 Timothy J. Luoma
1997-06-21 19:37 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
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From: Timothy J. Luoma @ 1997-06-21 19:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-workers
Sorry is this is old news to you all, but I just realized that when I am
logged in as root there is no $USER variable set.
Is this normal?
zsh ver = 3.0.2
TjL
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* Re: no $USER when root
1997-06-21 19:30 no $USER when root Timothy J. Luoma
@ 1997-06-21 19:37 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1997-06-22 2:55 ` Stefan Monnier
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Zoltan Hidvegi @ 1997-06-21 19:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: luomat; +Cc: zsh-workers
> Sorry is this is old news to you all, but I just realized that when I am
> logged in as root there is no $USER variable set.
USER is not set by zsh, it should be set by login or su or xdm or whatever.
Zoltan
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* Re: no $USER when root
1997-06-21 19:37 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
@ 1997-06-22 2:55 ` Stefan Monnier
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From: Stefan Monnier @ 1997-06-22 2:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zsh-workers
Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@ny.frontiercomm.net> writes:
> > Sorry is this is old news to you all, but I just realized that when I am
> > logged in as root there is no $USER variable set.
> USER is not set by zsh, it should be set by login or su or xdm or whatever.
Also, IIRC, the official POSIX envvar for that is LOGNAME rather than USER.
Or am I blowing hot air ?
Stefan
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