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@derrickstolee derrickstolee commented Mar 25, 2020 •
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Resolves #336.

Since sudo whoami always returns "root", we should not just replace our use of logname with whoami. Instead, fall back to whoami only if logname returns "root".

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Looks good. Did you try running the install script with sudo and see if it returned root? Just curious.

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Looks good. Did you try running the install script with sudo and see if it returned root? Just curious.

$ sudo whoami
root

$ sudo logname
stolee

I suppose that's a great reason for doing it the way we did.

Also, going through the hoops of installing tmux, I don't get the same behavior reported in #356. logname works just fine.

Maybe we should just close both here?

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Mac install: use 'whoami' if 'logname' says root
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Resolves microsoft#336.

I am unable to reproduce the situation where 'logname' returns
root while 'whoami' does not, but at least we have a fallback
option. 'whoami' definitely returns root under 'sudo' so we
do not want to start there.

Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
@derrickstolee derrickstolee merged commit c5c1716 into microsoft:master Mar 25, 2020
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