NAME

whoami − display the effective current username

SYNOPSIS

whoami

DESCRIPTION

whoami displays the login name corresponding to the current effective uer ID.  If you have used su(1) 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(2) and getpwent(3), respectively). 

FILES

/etc/passwd username data base

/etc/utmp database of users currently logged in

SEE ALSO

su(1), who(1), getuid(2), getpwent(3), utmp(5)

Sun Release 4.0  —  Last change: 25 March 1989