[mgonzalo]

before anything, to ask for forgiveness for my bad English

I have 2 you scheme one it is HP-UX w-hp4 B.11.11 OR 9000/800 and the other one is SunOS isis 5.8
Generic_108528-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250

The problem is that when from user's bill I connect myself to root with the command "su -" from HP it schemes it if I execute whoami tells me that I am root but from the Sun if I execute who am i" tells me that I am the user with which connects me to it schemes it, before executing "su -" which is the command that I should execute in Sun to know in all moment that user is and not to made a mistake?

[lotuseclat79]

Hi mgonzalo,

The whoami command is used to print the effective user id. Try using the id command which is used to print the user identity when you are in a regular account vs. in the root account and contrast it with what you get with the whoami command in each case.

-- Tom

[mgonzalo]

thank you, it has worked me the command "id"