$USER is deprecated in favour of $LOGNAME

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/share/man/man7/environ.7 b/share/man/man7/environ.7
index 1f7b1a58e23..38cae40a7ee 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/environ.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/environ.7
@@ -139,12 +139,12 @@ displays the current time in California.
 See
 .Xr tzset 3
 for more information.
-.It Ev USER
-The login name of the user.
 .It Ev LOGNAME
-Same as
-.Ev USER
-(for POSIX compatibility).
+The login name of the user.
+.It Ev USER
+Deprecated synonym of
+.Ev LOGNAME
+(for backwards compatibility).
 .El
 .Pp
 Further names may be placed in the environment by the