Numeric User Gone Bad?

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

I've looked in every place I know about, and find no explicit statement
that exports that variable either. But hey, there's lots of places I
don't know about, too.

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 08:41:42PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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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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