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Old 03-17-2011
Help with who am i . Not displaying real user
Hi

I'm trying to get the real username of any user running as root on my server. On one of my server running Sol 10, if I su to root and run who am i, it displays my username. which is what I want.

But when I run it on another server, this time on Sol 8, it displays root as the user. Is there anyway to get the actual user name?

Thank you in advance
# 2  
Old 03-17-2011
Try
Code:
id -un

# 3  
Old 03-17-2011
sorry that does not work..... illegal option.
# 4  
Old 03-17-2011
Code:
/usr/xpg4/bin/id -un

# 5  
Old 03-17-2011
Great! works...thanks!Smilie

---------- Post updated at 09:47 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:38 AM ----------

Spoke too soon, ignore my previous post.... didn't work when I su to root and ran it.

Anyway, I found a way round it with the command below... strange though!
w -h |cut -f1 -d" " |uniq`
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Old 03-17-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by wisdom
Spoke too soon, ignore my previous post.... didn't work when I su to root and ran it.
Then please define better what output you expect depending on the various cases.
Quote:
Anyway, I found a way round it with the command below... strange though!
w -h |cut -f1 -d" " |uniq
This is quite weak, especially if more than one user is logged in.
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Old 03-18-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by jlliagre
Then please define better what output you expect depending on the various cases.
This is quite weak, especially if more than one user is logged in.
Very true.....
The required output is to display the real username, instead of displaying root as the user.
who am seems to work ok on my sol 10 servers, but on this sol 8, it's not. It keeps displaying that the real user is root.

Note I su to root on the server as opposed to login in as root. So it should really display my login name.
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