Bug #678077: Suggest alternative to os.getlogin()

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Andrew M. Kuchling 2003-02-03 15:36:26 +00:00
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@ -141,7 +141,9 @@ Availability: \UNIX.
\begin{funcdesc}{getlogin}{}
Return the name of the user logged in on the controlling terminal of
the process. For most purposes, it is more useful to use the
environment variable \envvar{LOGNAME} to find out who the user is.
environment variable \envvar{LOGNAME} to find out who the user is,
or \code{pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]} to get the login name
of the currently effective user ID.
Availability: \UNIX.
\end{funcdesc}