-#hmmm: save error output here instead of muting it.
-#hmmm: better yet actually, just don't complain on freaking cygwin, since that's where this happens
- chown -R "$(logname):$(logname)" \
+ my_user="$USER"
+ # here we definitely want the effective user name (in USER), since
+ # we don't want, say, fred (as logname) to own all of root's loading
+ # dock stuff.
+ chown -R "$my_user:$my_user" \