Xref: utzoo comp.sys.att:4022 comp.unix.questions:8860 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!lll-tis!oodis01!uplherc!sp7040!jsp From: jsp@sp7040.UUCP (John Peters) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: username problem Message-ID: <480@sp7040.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 88 17:49:38 GMT References: <578@proxftl.UUCP> Organization: Unisys, Salt Lake City, UT Lines: 17 In article <578@proxftl.UUCP>, aaron@proxftl.UUCP (Aaron Zimmerman) writes: <^> <^> So what's happenning is: somewhere along the line, some things think I'm <^> aaron, while others think I'm not. What's the story? I figure something might <^> be wrong with my /etc/group or my /etc/passwd. Could someone please post <^> examples showing what proper 'group' and 'passwd' files look like (or if you <^> have a better guess at what this problem is, I'd love to hear it). Thanks <^> much. <^> <^> __ | Zimmerman | Fort Ladeda, Fla | cat flames > /dev/null | Some programs get your user name from your pid by looking in the passwd file while others look at the LOGNAME variable in your environment. I would guess that others have some really bizare way of finding your logname. Try checking your environment to see of LOGNAME is being set correctly. -- Johnnie --