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From: pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: whoami?
Message-ID: <3109@canisius.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 91 04:12:16 GMT
References: <6624@crash.cts.com> <1991Jan1.183022.12539@sceard.Sceard.COM>
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo N.Y. 14208
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In article <1991Jan1.183022.12539@sceard.Sceard.COM>, mrm@sceard.Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) writes:
> >
> >I want the equivalent of whoami on BSD/SunOS for SCO Xenix that will work on
> >both the Bourne and C Shells.
> >
> You could always try 
> $ who am i
> like it says in the manual :-)


  Depending on which manual you have:  these are not the same.  "whoami" returns
  the effective user id, not the login id.

   greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny