From: Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 15:36:26 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Bug #678077: Suggest alternative to os.getlogin()
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~2079
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4b37364fc8b6d776d63094ccf0ad004e8e43e6de;p=python

Bug #678077: Suggest alternative to os.getlogin()
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
index e7e1ac5d2d..aa57217832 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
@@ -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}