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From: Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>
To: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov
Subject: chcat is using getlogin() function that sometimes returns null/empty string
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 19:01:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5665C991.4030606@debian.org> (raw)

Hi,

So apparently gnome-terminal developers have decided to stop updating 
utmp[0] file and this is breaking chcat -Ll with the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/bin/chcat", line 409, in <module>
     sys.exit(listusercats(cmds))
   File "/usr/bin/chcat", line 352, in listusercats
     users.append(os.getlogin())
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

getlogin(3) manpage suggest to rely on the LOGNAME environment variable, 
so maybe chcat should fallback to this if getlogin() is not returning 
anything?

Cheers,

Laurent Bigonville

[0] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747046

             reply	other threads:[~2015-12-07 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-07 18:01 Laurent Bigonville [this message]
2015-12-07 19:57 ` chcat is using getlogin() function that sometimes returns null/empty string Stephen Smalley

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