LOGNAME(1) General Commands Manual LOGNAME(1)

NAME

lognamedisplay user's login name

SYNOPSIS

logname

DESCRIPTION

The logname utility writes the user's login name to standard output followed by a newline.

The logname utility explicitly ignores the LOGNAME and USER environment variables because the environment cannot be trusted.

The logname utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

who(1), whoami(1), getlogin(2)

STANDARDS

The logname utility conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (“POSIX.2”).

HISTORY

The logname command appeared in 4.4BSD.
June 9, 1993 NetBSD 6.1