WHO(1) General Commands Manual WHO(1)

NAME

whodisplay who is logged in

SYNOPSIS

who [-abdHlmqrstTuv] [file]

who am i

DESCRIPTION

The who utility displays a list of all users currently logged on, showing for each user the login name, tty name, the date and time of login, and hostname if not local.
Available options:
 
 
-a
Same as --bdlprTtuv.
 
 
-b
Time of last system boot.
 
 
-d
Print dead processes.
 
 
-H
Write column headings above the regular output.
 
 
-l
Print system login processes.
 
 
-m
Only print information about the current terminal. This is the POSIX way of saying who am i.
 
 
-p
Print active processes spawned by init(8).
 
 
-q
“Quick mode”: List only the names and the number of users currently logged on. When this option is used, all other options are ignored.
 
 
-r
Print the current runlevel. Supported runlevels are:
 
 
d (DEATH)
The system has halted.
 
 
s (SINGLE_USER)
The system is running in single user mode.
 
 
r (RUNCOM)
The system is executing /etc/rc.
 
 
t (READ_TTYS)
The system is processing /etc/ttys.
 
 
m (MULTI_USER)
The system is running in multi-user mode.
 
 
T (CLEAN_TTYS)
The system is in the process of stopping processes associated with terminal devices.
 
 
c (CATATONIA)
The system is in the process of shutting down and will not create new processes.
 
 
-s
List only the name, line and time fields. This is the default.
 
 
-T
Print a character after the user name indicating the state of the terminal line: ‘+’ if the terminal is writable; ‘-’ if it is not; and ‘?’ if a bad line is encountered.
 
 
-t
Print last system clock change.
 
 
-u
Print the idle time for each user, and the associated process ID.
 
 
-v
When printing of more information is requested with -u, this switch can be used to also printed process termination signals, process exit status, session id for windowing and the type of the entry, see documentation of ut_type in getutxent(3).
 
 
am I
Returns the invoker's real user name.
 
 
file
By default, who gathers information from the file /var/run/utmpx. An alternative file may be specified which is usually /var/log/wtmpx (or /var/log/wtmp, or /var/log/wtmpx.[0-6] or /var/log/wtmp.[0-6] depending on site policy as wtmpx can grow quite large and daily versions may or may not be kept around after compression by ac(8)). The wtmpx and wtmp file contains a record of every login, logout, crash, shutdown and date change since wtmpx and wtmp were last truncated or created.
If /var/log/wtmpx or /var/log/wtmp are being used as the file, the user name may be empty or one of the special characters '|', '}' and '~'. Logouts produce an output line without any user name. For more information on the special characters, see utmp(5).

FILES

/var/run/utmp
 
/var/run/utmpx
 
/var/log/wtmp
 
/var/log/wtmp.[0-6]
 
/var/log/wtmpx
 
/var/log/wtmpx.[0-6]
 

SEE ALSO

last(1), mesg(1), users(1), getuid(2), utmp(5), utmpx(5)

STANDARDS

The who utility is expected to conform to IEEE Std 1003.2-1992 (“POSIX.2”).

HISTORY

A who utility appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/pdfs/man14.pdf
December 25, 2014 NetBSD 8.0