whoami(1)                                                  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 respectively.  [See
             getuid(2) and getpwent(3C).]

       FILES
             /etc/passwd         username data base

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





























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