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| -rw-r--r-- | git/util.py | 21 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/git/util.py b/git/util.py index 0e7e4cba..79c6008f 100644 --- a/git/util.py +++ b/git/util.py @@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ from smmap import ( SlidingWindowMapManager, SlidingWindowMapBuffer ) - +# Import the user database on unix based systems +if os.name == "posix": + import pwd __all__ = ( "stream_copy", "join_path", "to_native_path_windows", "to_native_path_linux", @@ -144,12 +146,17 @@ class _RandomAccessStringIO(object): def get_user_id(): """:return: string identifying the currently active system user as name@node - :note: user can be set with the 'USER' environment variable, usually set on windows""" - ukn = 'UNKNOWN' - username = os.environ.get('USER', os.environ.get('USERNAME', ukn)) - if username == ukn and hasattr(os, 'getlogin'): - username = os.getlogin() - # END get username from login + :note: user can be set with the 'USER' environment variable, usually set on windows + :note: on unix based systems you can use the password database + to get the login name of the effective process user""" + if os.name == "posix": + username = pwd.getpwuid(os.geteuid()).pw_name + else: + ukn = 'UNKNOWN' + username = os.environ.get('USER', os.environ.get('USERNAME', ukn)) + if username == ukn and hasattr(os, 'getlogin'): + username = os.getlogin() + # END get username from login return "%s@%s" % (username, platform.node()) def is_git_dir(d): |