Many standard programs will automatically use the UID (the number) of a user instead of the USER (username) when the USER string is longer than 8 characters. In my case the username assigned to me is 11 characters long and cannot be changed. Starting the emacs daemon with "emacs --daemon=$EMACS_DAEMON_NAME", where the $EMACS_DAEMON_NAME matches the standard letter, number, underscore requrements, ends up using my UID in the socket creation since my username is longer than 8 characters ("/tmp/emacs$(id -u)/$EMACS_DAEMON_NAME"). However, running "emacsclient -c -s $EMACS_DAEMON_NAME" fails with a refused connection because it attempts to connect using my username instead of the UID and fails to find the socket ("/tmp/emacs$USER/$EMACS_DAEMON_NAME"). These behaviors should be consistent between the two since they're expected to be used in tandem. 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