Get the initial username which you used to login to your Linux system

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If you need the initial user which you used to login to your Linux system or the time when you login you can do:

whoami

One purpose of this could be the .bashrc to show different Bash Prompts for root to different users:

if [ $(whoami) = "root" ]; then
   PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[41;33m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
else
   PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
fi
Last edit
Stefan Langenmaier
License
Source code in this card is licensed under the MIT License.
Posted by Kim Klotz to makandra dev (2012-07-02 12:57)