NAME¶

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

SYNOPSIS¶

parrot_whoami <path>

DESCRIPTION¶

parrot_whoami interrogates the system being accessed at <path> 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 <path> 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, <path> is not necessary:

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

COPYRIGHT¶

The Cooperative Computing Tools are Copyright (C) 2005-2019 The University of Notre Dame. This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License. See the file COPYING for details.

SEE ALSO¶

• Cooperative Computing Tools Documentation
• Parrot User Manual
• parrot_run(1) parrot_cp(1) parrot_getacl(1) parrot_setacl(1) parrot_mkalloc(1) parrot_lsalloc(1) parrot_locate(1) parrot_timeout(1) parrot_whoami(1) parrot_mount(1) parrot_md5(1) parrot_package_create(1) parrot_package_run(1) chroot_package_run(1)