Re: Wondering if this is a security issue?

I don’t understand, from your explanations, why it would report “root”. 

But it doesn’t seem to matter, except for blame assignment in logs of committed transactions from my LWM session.

FWIW, a shell running in an external terminal app shows this, which is correct:

➜  ~ logname
davidmcclain
➜  ~ hostname
Aquila.local
➜  ~         


> On May 4, 2026, at 11:50, Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> try 'id' in various combinations which will tell you who you really are
> 
>> On 4 May 2026, at 17:25, David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com) <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On LWM 8.1.2 64-bit
>> 
>> (sys:call-system-showing-output “logname”)
>> =>
>> ; logname
>> ; root
>> 0
>> 
>> ;; —————————
>> ;; Similarly, if you fire up the Shell in LW environment:
>> 
>> projects/Lispworks % logname
>> logname
>> root
>> 
>> ;; ———————————————
>> 
>> So, my question relates to “root” being returned, even though I am logged in under my own personal account.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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