${LOGNAME} vs. ${USER}

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2015-07-12 20:28 GMT+02:00 Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>:

> 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.
>
>
Ouch, my ”wild guess” was wrong…! What a shame… :P :D

Thanks for the information!


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ


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