how to find the user

[Ramana.Sv]

how to find the user in hp-ux,
i want remove all the users in that....

[Pete Randall]

I'm not sure what you're asking.

Find what user??? Remove which users???

Could you please explain a little further?


Pete

[Ramana.Sv]

i want list out all user in my hp-ux system and want remove unnecessary user in that how to do???

[Oviwan]

you can user sam or

$cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{print $1}'

[Pete Randall]

Write a little script like this:

$ cat finger_user

for USER in `cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{print $1}'`
do
finger $USER
done

Then run that script and analyze the output:

$ finger_user > finger.out

You will see, for each user, information like this:

$ finger rochelle
Login name: rochelle In real life: Rochelle E. Franklin
Bldg: registry2
Directory: /home/rochelle Shell: /usr/bin/sh
Never logged in.
No unread mail
No Plan.

The key here is the "Never logged in" line. If this says "never" or the last login was a long time ago, you might want to consider removing the user.


Pete

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

Be cautious. Do not remove any system accounts that may cause your system to become unstable.

Also, I would recommend using SAM for removal of user accounts.

kind regards
yogeeraj