** Description changed: - Logname only displays this problem in Xenial Unity. I expected it to - return my login name. It works in gnome-shell and mate editions of - Ubuntu. Only a problem with gnome-terminal. It works in xterm and - uxterm and in tty1. + 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. - Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch) Release 16.04 + 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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