#11169 NORM Not Tri: os.getlogin does fail in terminal

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#11169: os.getlogin does fail in terminal
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           Reporter:  erikos        |       Owner:                                   
               Type:  defect        |      Status:  new                              
           Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Not Triaged                      
          Component:  not assigned  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
         Resolution:                |    Keywords:                                   
        Next_action:  never set     |    Verified:  0                                
Deployment_affected:                |   Blockedby:                                   
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Changes (by Quozl):

  * version:  not specified => Development build as of this date


Comment:

 os.getlogin() is defined as ''Return the name of the user logged in on the
 controlling terminal of the process.''  Since there is no user logged in,
 either on serial port or in X server context, the behaviour is undefined.

 pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0] is more correct.  Perhaps fedpkg should use
 it?  ''fedpkg clone fedpkg'' didn't work for me, but the change was
 obvious.

 A workaround is to ssh into the host, or use a virtual console.

 I don't think we should login the olpc user unless there's some other good
 reason ... like was it always done this way?

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11169#comment:1>
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