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Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 3:44 PM
Subject: Why "unset USERNAME" in .bash_profile?
Hello,
I would like to know why in FC2 and FC3 there's this command in the default .bash_profile:
unset USERNAME
I googled for it, and didn't find any reference to a USERNAME environment variable, and I didn't find any process that sets it before the shell is started to unset it in .bash_profile...
Does anyone know what is it? Why is it being unset? Is there a reason to keep it? Or can I just ignore it and use the .bash_profile I used to have in other distro's?
Thanks! Branden
Odd - I grepped through the entire /etc/ directory and I can't see anyplace that this variable is set. I also commented out that line in .bash_profile and the variable was not set.
It looks like it is harmless. Is there a reason you want to take it out?
Thomas
