[Xquartz-dev] getlogin() returns wrong user

[Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia]

Seems quite odd to me.  Please file a radar at http://bugreport.apple.com, and let me know the number, so I can CC myself.  Make sure you include a sysdiagnose and reproduction steps.


> On Jun 1, 2017, at 05:01, Richard Tobin <richard at inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> On several occasions - but this is the first when I've had time to
> look into it - the first few xterms opened in a new session
> have been returning the wrong username from getlogin():
> 
> getuid() -> 26013 (correct)
> getpwuid(getuid()) -> richard (correct)
> getlogin() -> _spotlight (wrong)
> 
> The terminal ownership is right:
> 
> macaroni$ tty
> /dev/ttys001
> 
> macaroni$ ls -l /dev/ttys001
> crw--w----  1 richard  tty   16,   1 Jun  1 12:58 /dev/ttys001
> 
> The xterms are run with "xterm -ls".
> 
> Any suggestions as to what to look for?
> 
> -- Richard
> 
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