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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
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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  --