Index: src/user.c
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--- src/user.c
+++ src/user.c
@@ -498,10 +498,11 @@
 **   (8)  Check if the user can be extracted from the remote URL.
 **
 ** The user name is stored in g.zLogin.  The uid is in g.userUid.
 */
 void user_select(void){
+  UrlData url;
   if( g.userUid ) return;
   if( g.zLogin ){
     if( attempt_user(g.zLogin)==0 ){
       fossil_fatal("no such user: %s", g.zLogin);
     }else{
@@ -519,12 +520,13 @@
 
   if( attempt_user(fossil_getenv("LOGNAME")) ) return;
 
   if( attempt_user(fossil_getenv("USERNAME")) ) return;
 
-  url_parse(0, 0);
-  if( g.url.user && attempt_user(g.url.user) ) return;
+  memset(&url, 0, sizeof(url));
+  url_parse_local(0, 0, &url);
+  if( url.user && attempt_user(url.user) ) return;
 
   fossil_print(
     "Cannot figure out who you are!  Consider using the --user\n"
     "command line option, setting your USER environment variable,\n"
     "or setting a default user with \"fossil user default USER\".\n"