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Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 03:19:52 -0500
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POSIX.1[1] describes a LOGNAME environment variable which represents the 
user's login name.  Adding the following lines to /etc/profile should do 
the trick:

LOGNAME="`logname`"
export LOGNAME

Where logname(1) is a program supplied by coreutils whose presence is 
required by POSIX.1[2].

Could base-files please be patched accordingly?


Yaakov

[1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html
[2] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/logname.html


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