1logname(1) User Commands logname(1)
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6 logname - return user's login name
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17 The logname utility writes the user's login name to standard output.
18 The login name is the string that would be returned by the getlogin(3C)
19 function. Under the conditions where getlogin() would fail, logname
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24 The logname utility writes the user's login name to standard output.
25 The login name is the string that would be returned by the getlogin(3C)
26 function. If getlogin() does not return successfully, the name corre‐
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30 See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables
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44 /etc/profile environment for user at login time
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47 /var/adm/utmpx user and accounting information
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51 See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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56 ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
57 │ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
58 ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
59 │Availability │SUNWesu │
60 ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
61 │Interface Stability │Committed │
62 ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
63 │Standard │See standards(5). │
64 └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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