Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> added the comment:
Versions 3.7 and below are all in feature-freeze, so this change could only
apply to 3.8 and above.
I don't know if this feature is desirable or not.
If it is (sometimes?) desirable, my guess is that it would be undesirable to
use SUDO_USER *unless* the effective user ID was 0. (Don't check for the name
"root", that's only a convention.) In pseudocode:
names = ('LOGNAME', 'USER', 'LNAME', 'USERNAME')
if effective user ID == 0:
names = ('SUDO_USER',) + names
for name in names:
...
Also needs documentation and tests.
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nosy: +steven.daprano
versions: -Python 2.7, Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7
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