Numeric User Gone Bad?

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Steve,

On my squeeze system, talkwith still works, and your test script gives
me this:

Numeric user-id = 0
Character user-id = root

So I wonder what's going on here?

Chuck


On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 03:23:51PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> I noticed something lately, like this morning where the numeric
> user-id ($UID) doesn't work inside of scripts anymore.  Has anyone
> else noticed this? I'm running Debian Squeeze so I have the latest
> package of espeak and so on.  I first noticed the problem in both
> talkwith and speakupconf shell scripts.  If I echo $UID from a live
> shell, I hear the numeric value as I would expect.  my normal account
> is 1000 and when I echo it from root I hear 0.  But when I execute
> this command in a shell script, the $UID field always comes up as an
> empty string or null so the fore mentioned shell scripts error out.
> 
> Hear's a sample test script to try this on.
> #!/bin/sh
> # Test user id values
> echo Numeric user-id = $UID
> echo Character user-id = $USER
> 
> When I run this script, the second echo command works beautifully but
> the first one puts out the string but the value of $UID is apparently
> empty because it is omitted.
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