whoami?

[Greg Pavlov]

In article <1991Jan1.183022.12539 at sceard.Sceard.COM>, mrm at sceard.Sceard.COM (M.R.Murphy) writes:
> >
> >I want the equivalent of whoami on BSD/SunOS for SCO Xenix that will work on
> >both the Bourne and C Shells.
> >
> You could always try 
> $ who am i
> like it says in the manual :-)


  Depending on which manual you have:  these are not the same.  "whoami" returns
  the effective user id, not the login id.

   greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny