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sewhoami Utility—Display Your CA ControlMinder User name and Security Credentials on UNIX

Valid on UNIX

The sewhoami utility displays the user name as it is known to the CA ControlMinder authorization daemon. sewhoami is similar to the whoami utility provided by UNIX systems, but it produces different and often more useful information:

• If the user executes an su command and then executes the UNIX whoami utility, it displays the user name according to the user ID acquired after executing the su command.
• If the user executes an su command and then executes the CA ControlMinder sewhoami utility, it displays the original login ID of the user; it also displays authorization information.

This command has the following format:

sewhoami [-a|-d]

‑a

Displays the user's credentials; that is, the contents of the user's ACEE.

Note: For more information on the ACEE, see the Endpoint Administration Guide for UNIX.

‑d

Displays the ACEE handle associated with the user and the handle's name in the database.

Example: Display Your CA ControlMinder User Name and Security Credentials on UNIX

This example displays your own user name and security credentials as they are known to the CA ControlMinder authorization daemon:

sewhoami -a

If you are a root user, the sewhoami output may look like the following example:

root
ACEE Contents
  User's Name             : root
  ACEE's Handle           : 52
  Group Connections Table:
    Group Name              Connection Mode
            ====================    =================================
    adm                     Regular 
    bin                     Regular 
    daemon                  Regular 
    disk                    Regular 
    root                    Regular 
    seosaudt                Regular 
    sys                     Regular 
    wheel                   Regular 
Categories              : <None>
Profile Group           : <None>
Security Label          : <None>
User's Audit Mode       : Failure LoginSuccess LoginFailure 
User's Security Level   : 0
Source Terminal         : <Unknown>
Process Count for ACEE  : 19
User's Mode             : Admin Auditor 
ACEE's Creation Time    : Tue Mar 17 14:53:07 2009

If you are a user named test, and are not a root user, the sewhoami output may look like the following example:

test
ACEE Contents
  User's Name             : test
  ACEE's Handle           : 65
  Group Connections Table:
    Group Name              Connection Mode
            ====================    =================================
    seosaudt                Regular 
    users                   Regular 
Categories              : <None>
Profile Group           : secadmin
Security Label          : <None>
User's Audit Mode       : Failure LoginSuccess LoginFailure 
User's Security Level   : 0
Source Terminal         : localhost.localdomain
Process Count for ACEE  : 2
User's Mode             : Admin Auditor 
ACEE's Creation Time    : Wed Mar 18 15:34:53 2009

More information:

secons -whoami Function—Display Your User Name and Security Credentials