how to find creation time of a user?

[sukumar maddela]

Hi all,

I would like to find the time when a particular user is created. can i find in any log file. or otherwise using stat system call or any other functions can i find that time. plz help me.


Thanks in advance.

Regards,
M.Sukumar

[R.O.]

Hi,

You can look at the time of the files .login , .kshrc , .exrc , .cshrc ... if they weren't used, thet will give you the date of the creation of the user.

Regards,

[sukumar maddela]

is there any ohter way..

[R.O.]

Hi,

¿Have you tried lo look at samlog through sam?? Obiously, it will work for you if the user was created by sam

Regards,

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
if the user was created recently using SAM, there may be something in the samlog.
Otherwise no specific log exists for this, unless auditing was switched on.

Best guess would be to use the oldest file in the users directory, or go through all your backups and check when the users home-dir apears.

[Mustafa Gulercan]

might try looking at the creation date of their home folder/profile

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

There is no *creation* timestamp maintained for files in Unix. The closest thing is the last *modification* timestamp which at the time a file is first created will represent a creation date/time. Thereafter, any change to the content of the file or directory alters the 'mtime' (modification timestamp). A 'touch' can be used to alter a file's timestamps. For more information, see 'stat(2)', 'utime(2)' and 'touch(1)'.

Regards!

...JRF...