topic Re: user creation date in Operating System - HP-UX

user creation date

Raj_Ranjan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:08:53 GMT

Is there any command or tool in hpux by which we can tell which user is created on which date.

Re: user creation date

Chris Vail — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:13:46 GMT

Its not terribly effective or auditable, but you can check the creation date on the home directory. If this is a hard-and-fast security requirement, you should look into licensing Tripwire or similar utility.

It is possible for root to munge any Unix tool, so this is not auditable. If you must have this, then a 3rd party product is the way to go.

Chris

Re: user creation date

Court Campbell — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:45:26 GMT

no. you will have to write a script that runs useradd and also adds an entry to a file or database telling the user creation date/time.

Re: user creation date

Sunil Garg — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:41:01 GMT

Hi.

If we dont talk about the 3rd party tool, which of course, can monitor this after installation, the user creation time and date cannot be determined. As far as home directory is concerned, it also changes its time stamp, and hence the creation time, which was equal to modified time, when home directory was created, is lost.

Re: user creation date

Deepak Kr — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:56:36 GMT

Boks is one of third party tool for this purpose.