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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: 31 Dec 90 04:16:03 GMT
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edhew@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) writes:
>Unless I'm missing something, why not simply
>
>if ( `logname` == "root" ) then
>
>	....and so on?

Because logname returns exactly that, your login name.  If you do an su to
root and do a logname it will return the login name of the account you logged
in as not root.

What I want is something that will tell me the login name of the effective
user id.  I haven't tried the code fragment with sed yet, but I did try your
suggestion out and it doesn't work.

I want the equivalent of whoami on BSD/SunOS for SCO Xenix that will work on
both the Bourne and C Shells.

     // JCA

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