username problem

Michael "Ford" Ditto ditto at cbmvax.UUCP
Fri Aug 19 05:49:55 AEST 1988


In article <2255 at uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> richard at uhccux.UUCP (Richard Foulk) writes:
}} The passwd command is calling getlogin()
 [ ... ]
}} It's an unfortunate side-effect of multiple console gettys.
}
}Perhaps making some links to /dev/window so that each getty can
}refer to it by a different name would solve the problem.

Nope.  Good idea, though.  The problem seems to be that getlogin()
never even looks at the tty name at all when you're logged in on a
window.
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