whoami(1)          UNIX System V(BSD Compatibility Package)           whoami(1)


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 getpwent, respectively).

FILES
      /etc/passwd         username data base

SEE ALSO
      su(1), who(1) in the User's Reference Manual
      getuid(2), getpwent(3) in the Programmer's Reference Manual



































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