Possible ambiguity in 04. User Account Management

hricky

The second sentence in 04. User Account Management – Determine the Current User states:

You can find out the current user ID with the whoami command.

But the command's output is to print an effective user name as shown below.

hricky

There is also a possible minor typo in Modifying and Deleting User Accounts:

Note that usermod will take care of any modifications to files in the /etc</span> directory as necessary.

hricky

And also a possible minor typo in ssh Configuration Files:

• id_rsa/span>: the user's private key

luisviveropena

Hi @hricky,

1.- For the first item, if you take a look at the man page for whoami, it says "print effective userid", so in this context it's correct.

WHOAMI(1) User Commands WHOAMI(1)

NAME
whoami - print effective userid

SYNOPSIS
whoami [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION
Print the user name associated with the current effective user ID. Same as id -un.

2.- For the second item, I don't see the string. What browser are you working with? Can you delete the cache and try again? I see it correctly on Chrome.

Regards,
Luis.

hricky

Hi @luisviveropena,

About whoami:

Actually, before I posted, I proceeded like this:

whoami --help

Usage: whoami [OPTION]...
Print the user name associated with the current effective user ID.
Same as id -un.

--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit

GNU coreutils online help: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
Full documentation https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/whoami
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) whoami invocation'

This output is generated from CentOS Stream 9

Then I followed Full documentation https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/whoami
and was redirected tо:
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/whoami-invocation.html#whoami-invocation

My ambiguity is probably due to the content of the page I was redirected to, but I will admit that in this context it's correct.

After clearing Cookies, Cache and Offline website data on my Firefox the </span> tag issue was resolved.

It's a great course and I strive to achieve the goals set out in it. That's why I aim

to notice any such problems and inform courseware designers so they can incorporate the appropriate remedies in the next release

as stated in the Course Introduction.

luisviveropena

Hi @hricky,

I'm glad it's clear now

And there isn't any problem with reporting what you think may need a fix.

Regards,
Luis.