Amos S <amos.shap...@gmail.com> added the comment:
The use of environment variables like USER and LOGNAME instead of getuid() etc is done in order to try to get "who really initiated this process?" rather than "who this process belongs to?". This is hidden today when SUDO_USER is ignored. This also fits my interpretation of the function's documentation: 'Return the "login name" of the user.' For instance, in a system I use I have to sudo to a system user other than root in order to execute certain scripts and this patch would reveal the original user who executed the sudo command. I updated the test case already in the existing PR. I update to the documentation to list SUDO_USER. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue34709> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
