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    Possible ambiguity in 04. User Account Management

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    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.

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    • Posts: 16

      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.

    • Posts: 16
      edited July 2023

      And also a possible minor typo in ssh Configuration Files:

      • id_rsa/span>: the user's private key
    • Posts: 1,268

      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.

    • Posts: 16
      edited July 2023

      Hi @luisviveropena,

      About whoami:

      Spoiler

      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.

    • Posts: 1,268

      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.

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