${LOGNAME} vs. ${USER}

[Nils Kassube]

Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> One thing that changed when I switched from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu
> 14.04 is what I already mentioned, that things like SD-cards end up
> at ”/media/<username>/” now, the earlier location was just ”/media/”.
> One wild guess I do is that Ubuntu uses either USER or LOGNAME
> somewhere ”under the hood”, to determine the location of my SD card.
> If so, which one?

Skimming through the source code of the udisks2 package it looks like 
none of them is used. Instead the username is read from /etc/passwd.


Nils