862300 - MCD autoconfig getenv does not retrieve USER variable

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

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User Agent: Opera/9.80 (X11; FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE amd64) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.13

Steps to reproduce:

I have setup autoconfig to retrieve preferences from my server based on user logged in at the time and set NSPR_LOG_MODULES=MCD:5, NSPR_LOG_FILE=logfile, MOZILLA_DEBUG=1. So the all.js is set to no obscure and looks to thunderbird.cfg, which is directed to url http://my.server/<user>; with refresh set.


Actual results:

getenv fails to retrieve the username from the env variable USER, so server errors because it doesn't get the user info required. Using displayError it displays almost gibberish-

displayError("ENV USER set to: ", getenv("USER"));

which prints: "ENV USER set to: failed: <user>".


Expected results:

It should have requested http://my.server/<user>