WHOAMI(1B) BSD Compatibility Package Commands WHOAMI(1B)
NAME
whoami - display the effective current username
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/whoamiDESCRIPTION
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)
