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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: whoami?
Message-ID: <6685@crash.cts.com>
Date: 3 Jan 91 16:36:40 GMT
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mrm@sceard.Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) writes:
>In article <6624@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) 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 :-)

I don't know if you're being funny or not.  All who am i does is return your
entry in /etc/utmp.  This may not be your effective login user name.
Case and point, logging in and executing an su, effective login name being
root.

     // JCA

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