WHOAMI(1B) BSD Compatibility Package Commands WHOAMI(1B)
whoami - display the effective current username
/usr/ucb/whoami
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).
/etc/passwd
username data base
who(1), getuid(2), getpwnam(3C), attributes(7), su(8)
September 14, 1992 WHOAMI(1B)
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
SEE ALSO
who(1), getuid(2), getpwnam(3C), attributes(7), su(8)
September 14, 1992 WHOAMI(1B)