whoami(1)               (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 (refer
     to getuid and getpwent).

FILES
     /etc/passwd         Username data base

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





































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