username problem

[Richard Foulk]

} The passwd command is calling getlogin() or cuserid() which, upon noticing
} that you are logged in on a window, searches /etc/utmp for the FIRST entry
} for ANY window.  It finds the "LOGIN" process before it finds your "aaron"
} entry and returns that.
} 
} It's an unfortunate side-effect of multiple console gettys.  It could be
} fixed, but no one's done it yet.  I doubt AT&T will fix it because the
} support folks probably don't want to support the multiple gettys.  Maybe
} someday someone will make a shared library patch.

Perhaps making some links to /dev/window so that each getty can
refer to it by a different name would solve the problem.

Richard