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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: whoami?
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Date: 26 Dec 90 05:16:08 GMT
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paulz@sco.COM (W. Paul Zola) writes:
>
>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.


What I want is something similiar to the BSD/SunOS whoami.  For example, in a
.cshrc file, I want to be able to do this:

if (`whoami` == "root") then
 set prompt = "#"
else
 set prompt = "%"
endif

Something like that.  Somebody gave me a code fragment in e-mail that does
return what I want, but shell scripts bomb.  Any idea why?


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