Manual page for WHOAMI(1)
whoami - display the effective current username
SYNOPSIS
whoami
DESCRIPTION
whoami
displays the login name corresponding to the current
effective uer
ID.
If you have used
su.1v
to temporarily adopt another user,
whoami
will report the login name associated with
that user
ID.
whoami
gets its information from the
geteuid()
and
getpwuid()
library routines (see
getuid.2v
and
getpwent.3v
respectively).
FILES
- /etc/passwd
-
username data base
- /etc/utmp
-
database of users currently logged in
SEE ALSO
su.1v
who.1
getuid.2v
getpwent.3v
utmp.5v
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