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  attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | SUNWscpu                    |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|

SEE ALSO

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