Re: Wondering if this is a security issue?

okay, WHOAMI works well.



> On May 4, 2026, at 15:09, David McClain <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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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