Numeric User Gone Bad?

[Steve Holmes]

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I for the time being just inserted a 'export UID' in my .bashrc.  That
fixed my problem.  It still doesn't explain why the problem came up in
the first place though.

On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 05:35:11PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 05:37:30AM -0500, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> > We need others to let us know what happens on their
> > systems, hopefully this can be clarified before long.
> 
> Well, I have 2 systems here, (1 physical, 1 virtual), running debian testing, which still
> reports itself as 5.0, and I just upgraded both. While I understand
> that Steve and Chuck seem to be running Squeeze, I'm reporting my
> observations, since my upgrade dragged in espeak 1.40.02, so I'm
> guessing that testing, and Squeeze are more or less identical at this
> point.
> 
> Anyway, echo $UID, and echo $USER, both produce the expected results on
> both systems. 
> 
> Greg
> 
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