[issue40821] os.getlogin() not working

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[issue40821] os.getlogin() not working

Christian Heimes added the comment: errno 6 is ENXIO. According to https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/getlogin.3.html the error code means "The calling process has no controlling terminal.". os.getlogin() returns the name of the user logged in on the controlling terminal of the proce

[issue40821] os.getlogin() not working

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[issue40821] os.getlogin() not working

Christian Heimes added the comment: On POSIX os.getlogin() is a thin wrapper around the glibc function getlogin() https://linux.die.net/man/3/getlogin . The error is coming from glibc. -- nosy: +christian.heimes ___ Python tracker

[issue40821] os.getlogin() not working

New submission from Manickaraja Kumarappan : Hi, We are using below command to get the original login user. In some cases folks sudo as different user and run commands. In some cases folks use switch to different user (su - <>) and then run command. In all cases we would like to get original