whoami(1B)
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 getpwnam(3C), respectively).
FILES
/etc/passwd username data base
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
| Availability | SUNWscpu |
SEE ALSO
su(1M), who(1), getuid(2), getpwnam(3C), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.6 — Last change: 14 Sep 1992