WHOAMI(1) User Commands WHOAMI(1)NAME
whoami - print effective userid
SYNOPSIS
whoami [OPTION]...
DESCRIPTION
Print the user name associated with the current effective user ID. Same as id -un.
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report whoami translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
AUTHOR
Written by Richard Mlynarik.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for whoami is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and whoami programs are properly installed at your site,
the command
info coreutils 'whoami invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 WHOAMI(1)
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ID(1) User Commands ID(1)NAME
id - print real and effective user and group IDs
SYNOPSIS
id [OPTION]... [USER]
DESCRIPTION
Print user and group information for the specified USER, or (when USER omitted) for the current user.
-a ignore, for compatibility with other versions
-Z, --context
print only the security context of the current user
-g, --group
print only the effective group ID
-G, --groups
print all group IDs
-n, --name
print a name instead of a number, for -ugG
-r, --real
print the real ID instead of the effective ID, with -ugG
-u, --user
print only the effective user ID
-z, --zero
delimit entries with NUL characters, not whitespace;
not permitted in default format
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
Without any OPTION, print some useful set of identified information.
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report id translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
AUTHOR
Written by Arnold Robbins and David MacKenzie.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for id is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and id programs are properly installed at your site, the com-
mand
info coreutils 'id invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.22 June 2014 ID(1)
Ladies, Gents,
I am fairly new to this game but I am having trouble making the above command work.
If I login as root and go to terminal session "whoami" works.
If I login as admin open a terminal session and "su root" the "whoami" command comes up with " Not recognised".
Any ideas?
... (1 Reply)
Hello
I have a question about shell programming
So I recently found out that someone is secretly accessing my files due to my mistake. Of course, now, I changed all the permission so people cannot access my file(s) anymore.
However, I am a little bit mad about the fact and I'd like to find that... (1 Reply)
how can I use whoami on a script for ordinary user? it always says command not found. pls help
#!/bin/ksh
W='whoami'
DATE=`date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"`
echo " $DATE- by $W"
result
2011-03-29 09:46:16 - by
you wil noticed the by is blank...pls help..but in root, it works (1 Reply)
I was following a tutorial on installing Homebrew and I changed the ownership of /usr/local/ to me. Now McAfee Security won't start This is the exact line I typed:
sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local
Then I tried to fix it with:
sudo chown -R root /usr/local
I still can't start mcafee. It say... (7 Replies)
// AIX 6.1 TL8
Please advise on how to capture whoami log or the user and time info into a log file (i.e. /tmp/cmdcapture.log) whenever users are executing a certain command(s) so that I can keep the single log history (for all users) of who did what. The command(s) I need to monitor are a... (3 Replies)