topic Listing inactive users in Operating System - HP-UX

Listing inactive users

Mahlathini — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:19:23 GMT

Hi All

How do I list number of inactive users from /etc/passwd file.

I tried logins -x it does not help.
Thank you.

Re: Listing inactive users

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:23:18 GMT

Shalom,

You do not reveal the OS or security setup.

Try passwd -sa

This will help depending on OS level and security setup.

SEP

Re: Listing inactive users

Mahlathini — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:42:02 GMT

The OS level hp-ux 11.11i and is a trusted system. I did try passwd -sa, it only shows the users and without passwd.

Re: Listing inactive users

IG_2 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:56:27 GMT

Shalom,

What do you mean under "inactive"? Those who hasn't logon the host for some days or what? If this you can run the following pipe

# last | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort | uniq

It consumes a lot of memory but will give a list of user who have registered in OS. The rest from /etc/passwd are "inactive".

Re: Listing inactive users

Mahlathini — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:03:12 GMT

Thanks it seems to be working.

Re: Listing inactive users

Court Campbell — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:23:37 GMT

With trusted systems you can set accounts to be locked after n number of days of inactivity. Once you set that up you could write a script to get the list of accounts from /etc/passwd. Then use a loop to run them through getprpw. All you'll need is the lockout field. If the second bit is a 1 then the account is inactive. Refer to man getprpw.

Re: Listing inactive users

Haral Tsitsivas — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:21:36 GMT

"lastlog" shows the last login time for each user.

Re: Listing inactive users

skt_skt — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:35:06 GMT

check this my own thread

http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1172652