Mar 8, 2016 · While reading about environment variables, the one I came across was LOGNAME, I'd like to know the difference between this variable and whatever the command logname returns - as both of them did di...

I can create a .logname file for the home directory of each user on the system. Yes, someone could hack into my computer and change these files, but I'm not really worried about that.

Aug 2, 2019 · But what exactly is $(logname)? On a local machine, echo $(logname) returns nothing, while echo $LOGNAME does, so it's not the environmental variable, although I have never seen the value to be any different on remote machines.

May 19, 2013 · USER and USERNAME are ordinary environment variables, which means that, if you want, you can set them to arbitrary values. Just type USER=xyz. In other words, even if those variables exist, there is no guarantee that their values match the currently logged-in username.

How do I change my logname?For e.g: xyz@ubuntu in the terminal how do I change xyz? I have tried this command usermod -l *newname* -d /home/*newname* -m *oldname* but that gave me an error user xyz is currently used by process PID Command line solutions are appreciated.

I have a strange problem: In a GUI session, depending on the terminal being used the following two (related) problems appear: who and w doesn't list the user's active session logname returns logna...

I am trying to understand the differences between logname and LOGNAME from Difference between logname and $LOGNAME and https://askubuntu.com/questions/490620 ...

Jun 20, 2022 · Whenever I connect to SSH session to a remote server, with either mobaXterm or just windows command line, there shows a message that says /usr/bin/logname: no login name I can edit files and see

Apr 1, 2020 · Systemd operates at a lower level than your shell environment. By this I mean, when you execute a command it is normally a child process of your shell environment which is a child process of your init daemon (systemd in this case). That means systemd units don't see or obey your shell environment nor shell macros like ~. Any environment variables configured in files like ~/.profile or ...

Apr 13, 2019 · The command "logname" gives me the name of the login user irrespective of subsequent "su"-calls. E.g. in current mint, the command "logname" is broken und gives no logname. I want to get its functi...