Question

I have a multi-user eclipse (3.4) installation with a shared master configuration area. Users need to override user.name with their full name and the usual method (adding -Duser.name=… to eclipse.ini) is not suitable since the override must be per-user. I’ve tried setting user.name in config.ini (inside each user’s configuration directory):

user.name=Luca Tettamanti 

but it does work, eclipse still retains the login name. The strange thing is that:

user.foobar=Luca Tettamanti 

is correctly picked up. Is it possible to somehow override user.name in this configuration?

Answer 1

This has been reported before indeed.

Why would you not use use a custom eclipse launcher (a script .cmd), which would modify the eclipse.ini, and then call eclipse.exe ?

That script could retrieve the full name with a comand like:

net user %username% /domain | find /i 'full' 

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That way, in Windows, your custom launcher would run eclipse with:

eclipse.exe -clean --launcher.ini shared\eclipse.ini -vmargs -Duser.name=%FULL_NAME% 

using the shared eclipse.ini, but specifying the user.name value.

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In Linux, to relay the contents of the shell variable USER to Eclipse, you need to do this:

exec eclipse -clean --launcher.ini shared/eclipse.ini -vmargs -Duser.name=`eval 'echo $USER'`