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Uh, judging from the code, this could only be happening if the POSIX call getlogin() returned an empty string on your box (which frankly I find hard to believe). Any way to test/confirm that?

Perhaps. Using Python (sorry, don't do C++), I found three potential ways to get my login. Two worked:

print os.environ['LOGNAME']

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print pwd.getpwuid(os.getuid())[0]

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print os.getlogin()

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

The Python documentation recommends using the environment variable LOGNAME for this:

http://docs.python.org/library/os.html#module-os

Thinking about that, the C syscall must be there (otherwise compilation would fail), but why it returns an empty string on kubuntu is beyond me :/

Works on a different box (also Ubuntu Intrepid):

print os.getlogin()
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No idea why.