topic whoami in Operating System - HP-UX

whoami

placitasmd — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:52:17 GMT

When I issue a "whoami", I get back the name of the logged in user. But when I issue a "who am i" I just get my prompt back. Any ideas what might be causing this? This happens for all users.

Re: whoami

Todd McDaniel_1 — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:13:47 GMT

It could be disabled.

You might check with your security group about what measures have been taken to secure your system. On some systems, commands like finger and who are disabled to prevent users from trying to see what Ids are logged in.

Re: whoami

Pete Randall — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:14:11 GMT

I would suspect a corrupt /etc/utmp file, since "who am i" reports your initial login name from that file whereas "whoami" prints your current user name.

Pete

Re: whoami

placitasmd — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:47:42 GMT

Solved problem by editing inittab to clear files on reboot.