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LOGNAME(1)              FreeBSD General Commands Manual             LOGNAME(1)

NAME
     logname - display user's login name

SYNOPSIS
     logname

DESCRIPTION
     The logname utility writes the user's login name to standard output
     followed by a newline.

     The logname utility explicitly ignores the LOGNAME and USER environment
     variables because the environment cannot be trusted.

EXIT STATUS
     The logname utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO
     who(1), whoami(1), getlogin(2)

STANDARDS
     The logname utility is expected to conform to IEEE Std 1003.2
     ("POSIX.2").

HISTORY
     The logname command appeared in 4.4BSD.

FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p6          June 9, 1993          FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p6

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