[Fab-user] os.getlogin() bug

[Jordi Funollet]

Hi Christian,

In my setup (Ubuntu 8.04 + Kde) the function 'os.getlogin()' returns an error 
under Konsole, but runs correctly if I switch to a vtty (out of Xwindows).

After googling a little bit it looks like 'getlogin' is broken; 
getpass.getuser() gives the same functionality and is more robust. So that's 
the trivial patch (for the 0.0.7 source):

# ---------------------------------------------------------------
--- fabric/fabric.py    2008-07-01 01:15:09.000000000 +0200
+++ fabric_changes/fabric.py    2008-07-13 23:54:37.000000000 +0200
@@ -56 +56 @@
-    'fab_user': os.getlogin(),
+    'fab_user': getpass.getuser(),
# ---------------------------------------------------------------

And an small tip: just 'import readline' on fabric.py and we'll have 
readline-like history on the 'fab shell', for free.
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