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Re: "who am i" bug?
- To: yap_noel at jpmorgan dot com
- Subject: Re: "who am i" bug?
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:15:23 -0400
- CC: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <85256922.006D85C7.00@nyc-ntgw-n01.ny.jpmorgan.com>
> "who am i" doesn't output anything. Shouldn't it output my username?
"who am i" reports who you logged in as. Since you didn't "log in" to
cygwin, it has no record of you. Since it can't find a record of your
login (in /var/rum/utmp) it can't report anything.
Perhaps what you want is "id -un" ?
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