whoami — Display the Effective Current User Name
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 identity, whoami reports the login name associated with that user ID. whoami gets its information from the geteuid and getpwuid library routines (see getuid(2) and getpwnam(3C)).
Examples
The following examples show the current effective user ID. Because root does not have /usr/ucbt in the search path, the full path name is required to execute the command as root.
castle% whoami winsor castle% su # whoami whoami: not found # /usr/ucb/whoami root # exit castle% su ray castle% whoami ray castle%
Files
| /etc/passwd | User name ... |
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