Bug 24256

Summary:	/etc/skel/.bash_profile sets empty $USERNAME
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	John Hardin <johnh>
Component:	setup	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
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Version:	7.0
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Description John Hardin 2001-01-18 00:01:53 UTC

The default .bash_profile in /etc/skel sets $USERNAME to "".

It should either set it to $USER, or `id -un` (ala /etc/profile) or leave
it undefined. Setting it explicitly to empty makes no sense.

This problem also exists in 7.0

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-01-18 01:43:04 UTC

*** Bug 24257 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-01-18 01:51:56 UTC

This is now part of bash...

Comment 3 Florian La Roche 2001-02-07 15:29:04 UTC

I have changed /etc/skel/.bash_profile to "unset USERNAME"

We should at some point investigate why /root/.bash_profile
sets USERNAME="root" or just through that away.

Comment 4 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-05-21 20:07:34 UTC

USERNAME isn't set at all in the current setup.