parrot_whoami(1)

NAME

parrot_whoami - returns the user's credentials (id and authentication method) from the perspective of the system being accessed.

SYNOPSIS

*parrot_whoami *

DESCRIPTION

parrot_whoami interrogates the system being accessed at and returns the user's id from the perspective of that system as well as the authentication method being used. The specific results depend on the system being accessed.

If is not provided the current working directory is used.

OPTIONS

parrot_whoami has no options.

EXIT STATUS

On success, returns zero. On failure, returns non-zero.

EXAMPLES

To get the user's credentials when accessing a remote chirp server:

% parrot_run parrot_whoami /chirp/server.nd.edu/joe_data/data
unix:joe

If you're working within a remote directory, is not necessary:

% parrot_run tcsh
% cd /chirp/server.nd.edu/joe_data/data
% parrot_whoami
unix:joe
% exit