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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: whoami?
Message-ID: <18871@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 2 Jan 91 13:02:01 GMT
References: <6537@crash.cts.com> <18865@rpp386.cactus.org> <1990Dec30.080938.21103@xenitec.on.ca>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
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In article <1990Dec30.080938.21103@xenitec.on.ca> edhew@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) writes:
>Unless I'm missing something, why not simply
>
>if ( `logname` == "root" ) then

logname doesn't say who you are =now=.  the results
of logname will be incorrect if you are su'd to/from a
different user id.  id always reports your current
user name.
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