Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 18:46:24 +0100 (MET) From: Åge Røbekk <aagero@aage.aage.priv.no> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: getlogin() returns bogus username Message-ID: <199601161746.SAA03923@birk04.studby.uio.no>
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getlogin() does sometimes return the wrong username, e.g.
$ ./getlogin
getlogin: per-stia
$ id
uid=1000(aagero) gid=1000(aagero) groups=1000(aagero),0(wheel),2(kmem)
That is, getlogin returns the same bogus name each time I call it. But
if I login to a new session, e.g. rlogin localhost, getlogin() returns
the same as getuid(). The user returned from getlogin is usually
logged in when this happens.
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/* getlogin.c */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
void main(void)
{
printf("getlogin: %s\n", getlogin());
}
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