loginid vs. uid.

[BURNS,JIM]

in article <234 at twg.wimsey.bc.ca>, bill at twg.wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Irwin) says:
> Not  on my system it doesn't.  I have SCO XENIX V/386 2.3.2 and I get  my
> original  logname whether I use "-" in the su, or not.  From replies I've

However, you could always run your applications from a script where you
say LOGNAME=`whoami`. If you don't have whoami, I would imagine a simple
'c' program that does a getuid()  and a lookup on /etc/passwd would suffice.
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