In-reply-to: Message from Mike Merten <ironfoot@popaccount.com> of "Fri, 19 Feb 1999 14:26:00 CST." <[🔎]19990219142600.A6707@casper>
I don't know if Debian has some special policy for this; but as
far as I know: on a general UNIX box is USER is set by csh (and
tcsh), and LOGNAME is set by login.
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Patrik Hägglund