On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Will Parsons <[email protected]>wrote:

> One other thing - although there is no USER environment variable set
> (this is under FreeBSD), the environment variable LOGNAME *is* set,
> and I believe that LOGNAME rather than USER is the POSIXLY correct
> variable to identify the login user.
>

Hiho,

a quick google doesn't turn up any docs which definitively specify
precedence of LOGNAME vs. USER, but i've just committed a patch for this
which prefers USER but tries LOGNAME if USER is not set. Please try out the
latest trunk.

http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/info/5741754ed2


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