whoami(1B)

Name

whoami - display the effective current username

Synopsis

/usr/ucb/whoami 

Description

whoami displays the login name corresponding to the current effective user ID. If you have used su 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 and getpwnam (3C), respectively).

Files

/etc/passwd

username data base

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE Availability compatibility/ucb

See also

su(1M), who(1), getuid (2), getpwnam (3C), attributes (5)

Notes

This command is obsolete and will be removed in a future release of Solaris. See who(1) for an alternate implementation of this command.