topic Re: passwd file in Operating System - HP-UX

passwd file

Anthony khan — Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:09:04 GMT

Hi Guys, I need to get the username, userid, groupid and comments from /etc/passwd and then sort it, can anyone help me out.

Thanks

Re: passwd file

Hai Nguyen_1 — Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:17:15 GMT

Assume that you want to sort by users' names.

# awk -F: '{print $1 " " $3 " " $4 " " $5}' | sort

Hai

Re: passwd file

Trond Haugen — Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:18:07 GMT

# cat /etc/passwd | cut -f1,3-5 -d: | sort

Regards,
Trond

Re: passwd file

Darrell Allen — Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:21:25 GMT

Hi,

awk -F: '{printf "%-10s %6s %6s %-25s\n", $1, $3, $4, $5}' /etc/passwd | sort

Darrell

Re: passwd file

S.K. Chan — Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:22:55 GMT

The script would look like this ..(call it testscript)

#!/bin/ksh
IFS=:
exec 0while read -r Name PW UID GID Gecos Home Shell
do
print "$Name $UID $GID $Gecos"
done

This is how you can run it ..

# testscript | sort

Re: passwd file

Sukant Naik — Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:24:22 GMT

Hi Khan,

You can use the cut command on /etc/passwd file and extract the information.

1. to get the username
cut -d":" -f1 /etc/passwd

2. To get the userid
cut -d":" -f3 /etc/passwd

3. To get the groupid
cut -d":" -f4 /etc/passwd

and the comments
cut -d":" -f5 /etc/passwd

Regards,

Sukant

Re: passwd file

Hai Nguyen_1 — Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:29:45 GMT

I was missing the input file /etc/passwd in my command which should be:

# awk -F: '{print $1 " " $3 " " $4 " " $5}' /etc/passwd | sort

Hai

Re: passwd file

Justo Exposito — Tue, 23 Apr 2002 12:56:23 GMT

Hi,

This is only an optimized version for the cut solution:
cut -d":" -f1,3,4,5 /etc/passwd |sort

Regards,

Justo.

Re: passwd file

Niraj Kumar Verma — Wed, 24 Apr 2002 02:38:19 GMT

Hi,

Here is a good one !! use the
following hp-ux command

# /usr/sbin/logins -t

--Niraj

Re: passwd file

Yogeeraj_1 — Wed, 24 Apr 2002 06:29:26 GMT

hi,

i would also add the "-m" option to the logins command to display multiple group membership data.

logins -t -m

hope this helps

Best Regards
yogeeraj