How to use the Whoami command

"Who am I;" is a philosophical question for late night discussions. The , on the other hand is an extremely useful command of .

When you run the whoami command in a Windows command prompt box with no additional commands, you will see the minimum details: the current domain and username, in the form \ domain \ username (if you are logged in to a local account or a Microsoft account , the domain will display your computer name).

Τρέξτε την εντολή Whoami μαζί με το /? και θα δείτε το help που εμφανίζει τις επιλογές για την and additional information about the account of the currently logged-in user.

For results, use the whoami /all command, and it will display the security identifier (SID) for the current user, along with information about group membership and privileges.

The / fo list switch changes the default panel display (which can be difficult to read) to a neat list.

Use the / fo csv switch to change the appearance of the results to comma-separated values, which you can enter into a spreadsheet.

WHOAMI Parameter list:

/ UPN : displays the user name in User Principal Name (UPN) .
/ FQDN : displays the user name in Fully Qualified Distinguished Name (FQDN) format.
/ USER : displays information about the logged in user along with the security identifier (SID).
/ GROUPS : displays the group membership for the logged in user, account type, security identifiers (SID) and properties.
/ PRIV : displays the security privileges for the logged in user.
/ LOGONID : displays the logon ID for the logged in user.
/ ALL: Displays user name for the logged in user, groups, security identifiers (SID) and privileges.
/ FO format : output format in TABLE, LIST, CSV values.
/ NH : says in column not appear in the output. It only works for TABLE and CSV formats.
/? : help.

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