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whoami

Section: SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands (1B)
Updated: 14 Sep 1992
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NAME

whoami - display the effective current username  

SYNOPSIS

/usr/ucb/whoami  

DESCRIPTION

whoami displays the login name corresponding to the current effective user ID. If you have used su to temporarily adopt another user, whoami will report the login name associated with that user ID. whoami gets its information from the geteuid and getpwuid library routines (see getuid and getpwnam(3C), respectively).  

FILES

/etc/passwd username data base

 

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
AvailabilitySUNWscpu

 

SEE ALSO

su(1M), who(1), getuid(2), getpwnam(3C), attributes(5)

 

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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
FILES
ATTRIBUTES
SEE ALSO
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