user.name, user.home properties inaccessible on Solaris 2.4

Name: mc57594 Date: 05/15/97


The user.name, user.home properties are not usable in JDK-1.1.1
on Solaris 2.4. Below is a simple Java class which when
run will show that these properties do not have valid values -
they both have the value "?". This failure may not be
reproducible in all environments. It does fail as described
On Solaris 2.4 when using NIS for user information lookup.
It does NOT fail on Solaris 2.5.1, but the JDK-1.1.1 Solaris
release claims to support Solaris 2.4.

To reproduce the problem, compile and run the following
program.

public class jdk111bug {
  public static void main(String[] argv) {
    System.out.println("user.name = " + System.getProperty("user.name"));
    System.out.println("user.home = " + System.getProperty("user.home"));
  }
}


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