whoami(1)                        DG/UX R4.11                       whoami(1)


NAME
       whoami - display the effective current username

SYNOPSIS
       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 respectively.  [See getuid(2) and getpwent(3C).]

FILES
       /etc/passwd         username data base

SEE ALSO
       getpwent(3C), getuid(2), su(1M), who(1)


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