Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sco!paulz From: paulz@sco.COM (W. Paul Zola) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco Subject: Re: whoami? Summary: try id(C) Message-ID: <12952@scorn.sco.COM> Date: 24 Dec 90 03:28:15 GMT References: <6066@crash.cts.com> Sender: news@sco.COM Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Lines: 31 In article <6066@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes: }Is there a version of the who command for Xenix that will give you your }effective user id when presented with who am i? } [deleted] I suggest you look at the id(C) command. It might just do what you want. lanshark@p2 [~] [1]: id uid=666(paulz) gid=115(support) lanshark@p2 [~] [2]: su root Password: # id uid=0(root) gid=1(other) # exit lanshark@p2 [~] [3]: Hope this helps. - Paul Zola Software Support Engineer paulz@sco.COM We only know in theory what we are doing. - Kate Bush DISCLAIMER: I speak for myself, and not for SCO.