whoami?
John C. Archambeau
jca at pnet01.cts.com
Fri Jan 4 03:36:40 AEST 1991
mrm at sceard.Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) writes:
>In article <6624 at crash.cts.com> jca at pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
>>
>>I want the equivalent of whoami on BSD/SunOS for SCO Xenix that will work on
>>both the Bourne and C Shells.
>You could always try
>
> $ who am i
>
>like it says in the manual :-)
I don't know if you're being funny or not. All who am i does is return your
entry in /etc/utmp. This may not be your effective login user name.
Case and point, logging in and executing an su, effective login name being
root.
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