[patch] getlogin

[Neal H Walfield]

Using getlogin is prone to a variety of problems.  This patch fixes that
by avoiding getlogin altogether:

2001-08-16  Neal H Walfield  <address@hidden>

        * libparted/libparted.c (ped_init): Use getpwuid and geteuid,
        not getlogin.


--- libparted.c.orig    Thu Aug 16 15:00:19 2001
+++ libparted.c Thu Aug 16 15:11:54 2001
@@ -122,8 +122,11 @@ done_disk_types ()
 int
 ped_init ()
 {
-       if (getlogin())
-               initgroups (getlogin(), 0);
+       struct passwd *user;
+
+       user = getpwuid(geteuid());
+       if (user)
+               initgroups(user->pw_name, 0);
 
 #ifdef ENABLE_NLS
        bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);

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