Re: [Savannah-hackers] Username mismatch?

[Hugo Gayosso]

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Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> writes:

> I hope the following information will help:
> 
> 1) The reason for this behavior is that getpwuid() returns NULL (see
> cvs-1.11.5/src/subr.c, lines 368-375), i.e. /etc/passwd does not
> contain such entry.
> 
> 2) If the users' information has been moved from passwd to another
> database, the cvs source provides a way to override getpwuid call
> using SYSTEM_GETCALLER macro (see subr.c:346) For example, if you add
> a function
> 
>   char *savannah_getpwuid();
> 
> which would return the current user login name, then adding
> 
>   #define SYSTEM_GETCALLER() savannah_getpwuid()
> 
> to config.h should do the job.

Excellent!!!, thanks, this information has been forwarded to the
sysadmins.

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Hugo Gayosso
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