topic Re: User creation date. in Operating System - HP-UX

User creation date.

Julian ITSec — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:15:02 GMT

Hi All,

Does HP-UX keep records of when a users were created? If so what command will get me this information?

Thanks in Advance.

Re: User creation date.

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:20:28 GMT

No. Unless you script this yourself then there is no entry in the TCB database for this data --- oh, and don't listen to any suggestions about timestamps on files because UNIX does not have a file creation timestamp either.

The way to do this is to create a user creation script and it logs this data.

You can see what data a trusted system keeps by doing a 'man prpwd'.

Re: User creation date.

Jeff_Traigle — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:21:01 GMT

Maybe if auditing is turned on in a trusted system. Haven't used auditing so not sure about how you would track it down if that's even a possibility. Otherwise, no easy, reliable way in the system itself to find out.

Re: User creation date.

Ivan Ferreira — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:34:16 GMT

Under normal circunstances, the oldest file on the home directory for the user, is a good candidate to be the creation date of the user.