whoami?

[John F Haugh II]

In article <1990Dec30.080938.21103 at xenitec.on.ca> edhew at xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew) writes:
>Unless I'm missing something, why not simply
>
>if ( `logname` == "root" ) then

logname doesn't say who you are =now=.  the results
of logname will be incorrect if you are su'd to/from a
different user id.  id always reports your current
user name.
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