| Use the Whoami command to get details about your user account
By Ed Bott
"Who am I?" is a philosophy question designed for late-night debates in college dorm rooms. Whoami, on the other hand, is an obscure but extremely useful Windows command.
When you run the whoami command at a Windows command prompt without any switches, you get the barest of details: Your current domain and user name, in the form domainusername (if you're signed in with a local account or a Microsoft account, domain shows your computer name).
Tack the /? switch to the end of the command to see options for displaying and formatting additional information about the user account that's currently signed in. For the most complete display, use whoami /all /fo list, which displays the security identifier (SID) for the current user, along with information about group memberships and privileges.
The /fo list switch changes the default display from table (which can be hard to read) to a neatly formatted list. Use /fo csv switch to change the output to comma-separated values, which you can import into a spreadsheet. | By adding Cisco Umbrella to its existing security stack, Memorial Hermann Health System achieved a significant reduction in malware and extended off network protections for its employees. |
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