Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1537645
Title:
logname returns "logname: no login name" with gnome-terminal
Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Logname fails to return a login name in Xenial Unity. I expected it
to return my login name (especially when running as "sudo").
Strangely, it works in gnome-shell and mate editions of Xenial.
It is only a problem with gnome-terminal. It works in xterm and
uxterm and in tty1...
Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch) Release 16.04.
logname is unique because it returns the underlying username (and not
root) when in sudo mode, so this utility is fairly critical and cannot
be substituted with whoami or id -un or any other command that I know
of.
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