LOGNAME(1) User Commands LOGNAME(1)NAME
logname - print user's login name
SYNOPSIS
logname [OPTION]
DESCRIPTION
Print the name of the current user.
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by FIXME: unknown.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report logname translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/logname>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) logname invocation'
GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 LOGNAME(1)
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USERS(1) User Commands USERS(1)NAME
users - print the user names of users currently logged in to the current host
SYNOPSIS
users [OPTION]... [FILE]
DESCRIPTION
Output who is currently logged in according to FILE. If FILE is not specified, use /var/run/utmp. /var/log/wtmp as FILE is common.
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
AUTHOR
Written by Joseph Arceneaux and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report users translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO getent(1), who(1)
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/users>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) users invocation'
GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 USERS(1)
when we log into HP servers randomly we will get the message "logname: could not get the login name" if we open another connection we can login
we are running SSH 3.7
on OS B.11.23
this only happens on HP and only using ssh, I know there were problems like this on older ssh verisons but this... (0 Replies)
How would i do this in python
In bash i would do below and this would add the users logname to a file
This write the logname ie James to test.txt
But how would i do it in python this doesnt work below and ive tried different ways but cannot find an answer
But this just writes $(logname) to... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a requirment , can anyone please guide me
Q) If the number of users are 50 or more it should print the login names of users who have logged in last 5 minutes and login names of users who have logged out in last 5 minutes.
Waiting for the reply
Thank you very much
... (1 Reply)
LOGNAME variable is set as READONLY in .profile.
I want to make it WRITEABLE so that I can modify the LOGNAME values programatically/throush shell programs.
Thanks,
Guru (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am wondering what is the difference between the USER and LOGNAME environment variables, and under what situations would they be different?
I am using Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit and I do not have 'login' command to test it. (7 Replies)
I have some comments about a previously closed topic whose name is the same as above
Omitted from the discussion was the situation with a "sudo command or sudo within a script".
There is an inconsistency between systems. On some systems $LOGNAME is invariant, on others,
on RedHat sudo... (3 Replies)