On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 10:47:51 -0800 Stephen Carville <stephen at totalflood.com> wrote: > Another person suggested I use 'lognme' which seem to work OK. lognme? Do you mean logname? Or the variable LOGNAME? It's not clear whether that is always the original user. 'who am i' is documented as such though, more precisely 'the user associated with stdin' Matt