use USER environmental variable if getting user id by getpwuid is failed in perl scripts: download-from-binary-cache.pl and nix-channel

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/nix-channel.in b/scripts/nix-channel.in
index 4a480ae28b04..db1ca2993777 100755
--- a/scripts/nix-channel.in
+++ b/scripts/nix-channel.in
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ my $channelsList = "$home/.nix-channels";
 my $nixDefExpr = "$home/.nix-defexpr";
 
 # Figure out the name of the channels profile.
-my $userName = getpwuid($<) or die "cannot figure out user name";
+my $userName = getpwuid($<) or $ENV{"USER"} or die "cannot figure out user name");
 my $profile = "$Nix::Config::stateDir/profiles/per-user/$userName/channels";
 mkpath(dirname $profile, 0, 0755);