whoami?
John C. Archambeau
jca at pnet01.cts.com
Mon Dec 31 15:16:03 AEST 1990
edhew at xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) writes:
>Unless I'm missing something, why not simply
>
>if ( `logname` == "root" ) then
>
> ....and so on?
Because logname returns exactly that, your login name. If you do an su to
root and do a logname it will return the login name of the account you logged
in as not root.
What I want is something that will tell me the login name of the effective
user id. I haven't tried the code fragment with sed yet, but I did try your
suggestion out and it doesn't work.
I want the equivalent of whoami on BSD/SunOS for SCO Xenix that will work on
both the Bourne and C Shells.
// JCA
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