POSIX.1[1] describes a LOGNAME environment variable which represents the
user's login name. Adding the following lines to /etc/profile should do
the trick:
LOGNAME="`logname`"
export LOGNAME
Where logname(1) is a program supplied by coreutils whose presence is
required by POSIX.1[2].
Could base-files please be patched accordingly?
Yaakov
[1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap08.html
[2] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/logname.html
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