id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component resolution keywords cc fix_version see_also 413 alpine-config: ${ATHENA_USER:-$USER} doesn't work geofft "alpine implements its own ${foo:-bar} parsing that's nonrecursive, so if $ATHENA_USER is unset, you get an error message about not finding a literal $USER.mail.mit.edu. Perhaps we should fix this to be recursive, send the patch upstream, and Debathenify it, but among other concerns with this approach, that gets seriously in the way of the goal of stopping Debathenifying alpine and using the distro version (because we no longer need either the krb4 or Hesiod patches). We could also just try harder to make sure $ATHENA_USER is set no matter what." defect closed normal -- fixed