Questions tagged [whoami]
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command whoami and echo $USER are giving different outputs how is that even possible?
If I don't fix this I can't properly run bash scripts that checks whether the $USER is root in an IF statement, because, as it is, the $USER is never root, even when the whoami is the root. No matter ...
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Why whoami always returning "root"?
After a hack, a dedicated server always return "root" following whoami command. Even after a sudo su myUser > whoami return "root".
myUser exists on the server, because regarding this issue passwd ...
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In script : ssh and then sudo rootsh root
Can't find the solution.
I need in the script - ssh to a server then change to root via sudo /usr/bin/rootsh -i -u root. Then make some action then go back and carry on with script... Something like
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Different outputs for `w`, `who`, `whoami` and `id`
In command line platforms online, like for instance the one on Codecademy, when I run
for cmd in w who whoami id
do
echo $cmd
$cmd
echo =========================
echo " "
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Using whoami to search for files that mention user
I'm currently working through some exercises to try and improve my shell scripting. The requirements of the script are as follows:
It must get the user's name using the whoami command and store ...
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who, whoami, and "who am i"
I can understand the commands who and whoami, but what exactly happens when I type:
who am i
and
who am
I am on Ubuntu, nothing happens after them!
Why doesn't Linux / UNIX reply with an error ...
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Using export USER=myName doesn't change the output of whoami
I saw this example
$ whoami
MatsP
$ g++ -Wall -std=c++0x getenv.cpp
$ ./a.out
MatsP
$ export USER=DonaldDuck
$ ./a.out
DonaldDuck
but for me it doesn't work. I am in a Debian machine. I used ...
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Difference between logname and $LOGNAME
While reading about environment variables, the one I came across was LOGNAME, I'd like to know the difference between this variable and whatever the command logname returns - as both of them did ...
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$USER != whoami
I'm trying to re-install homebrew on my mac.
I get this error:
michaels-1856:~ michael.snowden$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
==> This ...
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Difference between who and whoami commands
The man page description of who command is
who - show who is logged on
But there exists a similar command whoami. The man page description of whoami is
whoami - print effective userid
Can anyone ...
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What does su - `whoami` command do?
I am running a script in my project and I see this command
su - `whoami`
I am having a few basic questions:
What does this command do ?
What is the significance of `` quotes outside the whoami ...
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Is `who mom likes` a real linux command?
I stumbled across a blog that mentioned the following command.
who mom likes
It appears to be equivalent to
who am i
The author warns to never enter the following into the command line (I ...
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A command that gives username@hostname:pwd
I know that pwd gives the current working directory, hostname gives the current host and whoami gives the current user. Is there a single unix command that will give me the output of
whoami@hostname:...
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`who am i` after `su` not showing new user id?
Why is it that when I switch user su <username> and then execute who am i is outputs the previous user which I was logged as and not the one I've switched to?
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