@id

[Bruce Easton]

Mark Luljak wrote:
>
> Confusious (Chris Rendall) say:
> > With SCO UNIX the longest username possible was 8 characters.  Linux
> > allows longer usernames so I've created everyone's username as the first
> > initial and last name.  In filePro @id only returns the first 8
> > characters which has broken a number of my apps since it is cutting off
> > the username.  I'm still running 5.0.14 and I'm wondering if this has
> > been fixed in a newer release, and it not are there plans to expand @id
> > to return the whole username?
>
>[...] I would suggest is that
> instead of using @ID, you actually use getenv("USER") and store it in a
> field of whatever length you deem appropriate.
>[..]

Not sure what the difference is or if there should be a difference, but when
I am logged in as a non-root user our SCO (?5.5) box here, $USER has no
value, but $LOGNAME has the login name.  But then on a Fedora box $USER and
$LOGNAME are showing the same value.  ???

We use getenv("LOGNAME") for several internal apps like employee time
recording since even when somone is super-user, we want the filepro app. to
record the original login name, not "root" (in a real field as Mark
mentioned instead of relying on @id).  I haven't tried longer login names
with this technique on Linux, for instance, but I would think it should work
the same.

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.