From kde-core-devel  Thu Dec 19 07:46:32 2002
From: AlanE <alane () geeksrus ! net>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 07:46:32 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: patch post requested by Waldo
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=104028588424794

The following patch has been confirmed to fix a kdesu-related bug in
arts. 

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51381

This patch was against KDE 3.1-RC5.

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--- mcop/mcoputils.cc.orig	Sat Feb  9 08:10:12 2002
+++ mcop/mcoputils.cc	Thu Dec 19 02:31:13 2002
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 #include <errno.h>
 #include <config.h>
 #include <ctype.h>
+#include <pwd.h>	//included to get logname from uid
 #include <map>
 	
 using namespace std;
@@ -73,8 +74,18 @@
 
 string MCOPUtils::createFilePath(string name)
 {
+// changed to get logname from uid instead of environment variable
+// LOGNAME to avoid trouble when LOGNAME does not exist or
+// is wrong (such as in kdesu environment)
+// S. Voitzsch Sebastian.Voitzsch@web.de
+// 2002-12-03
+
+	struct passwd *pwd = NULL;
+	pwd = getpwuid(geteuid());
+	if (pwd == NULL) arts_fatal("could not get user name from user id");
+
 	string logname = "unknown";
-	if(getenv("LOGNAME")) logname = getenv("LOGNAME");
+	logname = pwd->pw_name;
 
 	string tmpdir = "/tmp/mcop-"+uglify(logname);
 	if(mkdir(tmpdir.c_str(),0700) != 0 && errno != EEXIST)
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