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| -rw-r--r-- | guix/scripts/environment.scm | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/guix/scripts/environment.scm b/guix/scripts/environment.scm index b8979cac19..1fb3505307 100644 --- a/guix/scripts/environment.scm +++ b/guix/scripts/environment.scm @@ -477,6 +477,7 @@ WHILE-LIST." (group-entry (gid 65534) ;the overflow GID (name "overflow")))) (home-dir (password-entry-directory passwd)) + (logname (password-entry-name passwd)) (environ (filter (match-lambda ((variable . value) (find (cut regexp-exec <> variable) @@ -528,6 +529,10 @@ WHILE-LIST." ;; The same variables as in Nix's 'build.cc'. '("TMPDIR" "TEMPDIR" "TMP" "TEMP")) + ;; Some programs expect USER and/or LOGNAME to be set. + (setenv "LOGNAME" logname) + (setenv "USER" logname) + ;; Create a dummy home directory. (mkdir-p home-dir) (setenv "HOME" home-dir) |