That's by design. "whoami" uses geteuid which retrieves the user identity from the numerical id.
You should use who am I instead which retrieves the user identity from the utmpx/wtmpx or similar source:
Hello,
I want to compare two files. All records in file 2 that are not in file 1 should be output to file 3.
For example:
file 1
123
1234
123456
file 2
123
2345
23456
file 3 should have
2345
23456
I have looked at diff, bdiff, cmp, comm, diff3 without any luck! (2 Replies)
At the office, we often have to edit one file with VI. We are 4-6 workers doing it and sometimes can be done at the same time.
We have found a problem and want to prevent it with a file lock. Is it possible and how ?
problem :
Worker-a starts edit VI session on File-A at 1PM
Worker-b... (14 Replies)
Hello,
I am not the AIX guru..
This might seem simple for a lot but I am not sure where to start.. So here is my question:
I have a unix account on a remote site. My UID is 999999.
Now I need to create my account at my main site, with the same UID. So i have to make sure the UID 999999 is... (1 Reply)
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Hi,
I am new to shell scripting.
please help me to find out the solution.
I need a script where we need to read the text file(consists of all file names) and get the file names one by one
and append the date suffix for each file name as 'yyyymmdd' .
Then search each file if exists... (1 Reply)
* Can we create multiple users with same UID?
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Hello,
I created a new user "rootNew"
After creation I manually change the file /etc/passwd and gave the new user "rootNew" uid 0.
Now I have 2 users with uid 0 (root,rootNew) how can I know which user is log in the system?
"whoami" command return "root" for both users.
Thanks,
Uri
No... (0 Replies)
I need to list users in /etc/passwd with root's GID or UID or /root as home directory
If we have these entries in /etc/passwd
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
rootgooduser1:x:100:100::/home/gooduser1:/bin/bash
baduser1:x:0:300::/home/baduser1:/bin/bash... (6 Replies)
I would like to get an opinion for my solution for this task and get feedback about better approach or mistakes I have made.
1. The problem statement, all variables and given/known data:
The task is to create a script which prints information about users whose names are specified in the... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kornfan
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LEARN ABOUT X11R4
wtmpx
utmpx(4) File Formats utmpx(4)NAME
utmpx, wtmpx - utmpx and wtmpx database entry formats
SYNOPSIS
#include <utmpx.h>
/var/adm/utmpx
/var/adm/wtmpx
DESCRIPTION
The utmpx and wtmpx files are extended database files that have superseded the obsolete utmp and wtmp database files.
The utmpx database contains user access and accounting information for commands such as who(1), write(1), and login(1). The wtmpx database
contains the history of user access and accounting information for the utmpx database.
USAGE
Applications should not access these databases directly, but should use the functions described on the getutxent(3C) manual page to inter-
act with the utmpx and wtmpx databases to ensure that they are maintained consistently.
FILES
/var/adm/utmpx user access and adminstration information
/var/adm/wtmpx history of user access and adminstrative information
SEE ALSO getutxent(3C), wait(3C)wait.h(3HEAD)SunOS 5.10 22 Feb 1999 utmpx(4)