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From: bill@twg.wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Irwin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: loginid vs. uid.
Message-ID: <234@twg.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 16 Jul 90 06:32:08 GMT
References: <232@twg.wimsey.bc.ca> <11399@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Organization: TWG The Westrheim Group, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Lines: 23

In <11399@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (BURNS,JIM) writes:

$in article <232@twg.wimsey.bc.ca>, bill@twg.wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Irwin) says:
$> How do you change your logname to "wimp" when you "su - wimp"?  I have an
$> email  application  that  uses the logname to determine  which  directory
$> structure  to deal with in mail sessions, which makes it impossible to su
$> to another user and read their mail.

[....]
$                                 And of course, $LOGNAME will depend on
$whether you used the '-' flag to su or not.

Not  on my system it doesn't.  I have SCO XENIX V/386 2.3.2 and I get  my
original  logname whether I use "-" in the su, or not.  From replies I've
been getting, I'm getting the impression that using the "-" should change
the output of "logname" to that of the user changed to.

Mine doesn't.  8^|
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Bill Irwin    -   TWG The Westrheim Group     -    Vancouver, BC, Canada
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