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I wrote:
> In this case, I think the best solution would be to
> use the $HOME and $LOGNAME (or $USER) environment variables rather than
> the password database.

And here's a patch that does this:

Index: conf.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/tn5250/tn5250/src/conf.c,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -r1.13 conf.c
--- conf.c      8 Mar 2005 16:51:55 -0000       1.13
+++ conf.c      10 Sep 2005 07:56:58 -0000
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@
 int
 tn5250_config_load_default (Tn5250Config * This)
 {
-  struct passwd *pwent;
+  const char *home;
   char *dir;
   int ec;

@@ -425,21 +425,21 @@
       return -1;
     }

-  pwent = getpwuid (getuid ());
-  if (pwent == NULL)
+  home = getenv ("HOME");
+  if (home == NULL)
     {
-      perror ("getpwuid");
+      fputs("No value for HOME environment variable.\n", stderr);
       return -1;
     }

-  dir = (char *) malloc (strlen (pwent->pw_dir) + 12);
+  dir = (char *) malloc (strlen (home) + 12);
   if (dir == NULL)
     {
       perror ("malloc");
       return -1;
     }

-  strcpy (dir, pwent->pw_dir);
+  strcpy (dir, home);
   strcat (dir, "/.tn5250rc");
   if ((ec = tn5250_config_load (This, dir)) == -1)
     perror (dir);
@@ -648,12 +648,10 @@
   }
 #else
   {
-    struct passwd *pwent;
-    pwent = getpwuid (getuid ());
-    if (pwent != NULL)
+    const char *logname = getenv("LOGNAME");
+    if (logname != NULL)
       {
-       tn5250_config_replacedata ("$loginname$", pwent->pw_name, buf,
-                                  maxlen);
+       tn5250_config_replacedata ("$loginname$", logname, buf, maxlen);
       }
   }
 #endif
Index: macro.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/tn5250/tn5250/src/macro.c,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 macro.c
--- macro.c     8 Mar 2005 16:51:59 -0000       1.4
+++ macro.c     10 Sep 2005 07:56:58 -0000
@@ -340,19 +340,19 @@
  */
 char *macro_filename (Tn5250Display *Dsp)
 {
-   struct passwd *pwent;
+   const char *home;
    char *dir, *fname;
    const char *cnf ;

-   pwent = getpwuid (getuid ());
-   if (pwent == NULL)
+   home = getenv ("HOME");
+   if (home == NULL)
       return (NULL) ;

-   dir = (char *)malloc (strlen (pwent->pw_dir) + 16);
+   dir = (char *)malloc (strlen (home) + 16);
    if (dir == NULL)
       return (NULL) ;

-   strcpy (dir, pwent->pw_dir);
+   strcpy (dir, home);
    strcat (dir, "/.tn5250macros");

    fname = dir ;


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