[bug#43034] [PATCH] environment: Set USER and LOGNAME in container

[bug#43034] [PATCH] environment: Set USER and LOGNAME in container

[Lars-Dominik Braun]

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Hi,

I noticed `guix environment -C` lacks the two environment variable USER and
LOGNAME, which are part of %precious-variables (i.e. not cleared), but not
explicitly set when using a container. Some programs, in my case RStudio (see
https://github.com/leibniz-psychology/psychnotebook-app-rstudio/commit/3e15b9b173b8a9d2a7f55743ecba24e54b77ffad),
expect these to be set and can’t function properly without. Thus, the attached
patch exports them. This works with and without `-u`.

Cheers,
Lars


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From 516fecf81c980a020906533cd5135c6a7603a0a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lars-Dominik Braun <ldb@leibniz-psychology.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 10:52:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] environment: Set USER and LOGNAME in container

* guix/scripts/environment.scm (launch-environment/container): Set
  username environment variables.
---
 guix/scripts/environment.scm | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

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)
-- 
2.26.2


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bug#43034: [PATCH] environment: Set USER and LOGNAME in container

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Lars,

Lars-Dominik Braun <ldb@leibniz-psychology.org> skribis:

> From 516fecf81c980a020906533cd5135c6a7603a0a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Lars-Dominik Braun <ldb@leibniz-psychology.org>
> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 10:52:21 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] environment: Set USER and LOGNAME in container
>
> * guix/scripts/environment.scm (launch-environment/container): Set
>   username environment variables.

Applied!

>                        ;; 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)

I was hesitant because so far we were more or less following the set of
variables exported by the daemon (see nix/libstore/build.cc), but there
were already exceptions (HOME, GUIX_ENVIRONMENT, PS1), and I think
making ‘guix environment -C’ more convenient is what matters.

Thanks,
Ludo’.