topic Re: user uid in Operating System - HP-UX

user uid

Chern Jian Leaw — Mon, 13 May 2002 05:39:15 GMT

HI
Is there a way in which the id command could be specified to display the uid of any other users, besides only displaying the uid of the current user which had invoked the following ?:
$id

I'm running $id as root, but whenever I tried displaying the uid of other users, it would only display the uid of the current user, i.e myself.

Re: user uid

Animesh Chakraborty — Mon, 13 May 2002 05:47:07 GMT

Hi
Try
#id user
id followed by user name,it will display the user id of that perticular user.
Hope that is what you are looking for.

Re: user uid

Deepak Extross — Mon, 13 May 2002 05:48:40 GMT

id
should work.

Else, try
grep /etc/passwd
The third field is the user-id.

Re: user uid

Michael Tully — Mon, 13 May 2002 05:51:29 GMT

Hi,

You must state the userid name or number as well in the same argument.

# id tully
uid=105(tully) gid=20(users) groups=1(staff)

Have a look at the man page for 'id' for further options.

Cheers
~Michael

Re: user uid

T G Manikandan — Mon, 13 May 2002 06:02:53 GMT

Hello,
If you are working as super-user
you can use the
#logins
command to find out all the usernames,their groups,uid,gid
Also you can use
cat /etc/passwd|awk -F ":" '{print $1,$3}'
(to have the username and uid's).

THanks

Re: user uid

John Strang — Mon, 13 May 2002 07:06:10 GMT

If you want more information about a user you can run
finger
But unfortunately this does not display the uid

John