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From: gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (BURNS,JIM)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: loginid vs. uid.
Message-ID: <11428@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 16 Jul 90 17:51:30 GMT
References: <234@twg.wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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in article <234@twg.wimsey.bc.ca>, bill@twg.wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Irwin) says:
> Not  on my system it doesn't.  I have SCO XENIX V/386 2.3.2 and I get  my
> original  logname whether I use "-" in the su, or not.  From replies I've

However, you could always run your applications from a script where you
say LOGNAME=`whoami`. If you don't have whoami, I would imagine a simple
'c' program that does a getuid()  and a lookup on /etc/passwd would suffice.
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BURNS,JIM
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