how to list active users in hp-ux 11.0

[Marcelo Costa_2]

Mrs,

I need a help, please.

logins,listusers or cat /etc/passwd



Marcelo Costa

[Pete Randall]

Marcelo,

Try the "who" command.



Pete

[Graham Cameron_1]

Marcelo

This came up last week.

See

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=236787

-- Graham

[Mark Grant]

"who" is an excellent command for showing who is currently logged on and "last" is an excellent command for showing who has logged on recently.

[aparna challagulla]

hi Marcelo,

#who -u
command to list the users who are currently logged in
#w
command to list the current activity of all active users.

HTH
aparna

[TommyT]

Hi!

You can use:
#finger -Ril
and
#who -HRT

[Marcelo Costa_2]

sorry.

I have 900 users registered in the system "cat /etc/passwd | wc - l = 900", necessary only accounts that are active or that they are not deactivates.

thanks.

[Steven E. Protter]

You might want to set TMEOUT parameter so that idle sessions in telnet terminate after a certain number of seconds.

TMEOUT 1800 sets it for 30 minutes.

There are a lot of options in the who command, which might get you the information or selection you need.

man who.

Its probably time to play a bit and find out what works for you.

finger is insecure, and should be disabled on all systems, in my opinion.

SEP

[Graham Cameron_1 · Accepted solution]

Only you can know if they are "active".

The "last" command will give a history of logins so you can see who logged in recently.

-- Graham

[Mark Grant]

There is no way of telling who is an active user because some users that are in /etc/passwd might be a requirement for a software package but never actually log in.

The best you can do is note all the users required by your applications, together with system users such as "lp", "nobody", "bin" etc and then run "last" on the remaining users to see if they have logged in since wtmp was created or initialized.

The standard approach that nobody will admit to is to guess which users are inactive and change the password and see who complains. If nobody complains then you delete it.

[Pete Randall]

Marcelo,

If you mean that some of the users listed in /etc/passwd have had their accounts deactivated, look for an asterisk in the password field.


Pete

[Marcelo Costa_2]

last | grep Sep | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc -l

[Geoff Wild]

If you want to see "active" users on the system at the moment, then use finger:

By default, finger lists for each user_name on the system:

+ Login name,
+ Full given name,
+ Terminal write status (if write permission is denied),
+ Idle time,
+ Login time,
+ User's home directory and login shell,
+ Any plan the user has placed in file .plan in their home
directory,
+ Project on which they are working from the file .project, also
in the home directory,
+ office location and phone number (if known),
+ last time the user received the mail, and last time the user
read the mail.



Rgds...Geoff

[Vinayak Bapat]

Run this script , it will take time for 900 users.But it will give listing for users never logged on /Last logged on and currently working.

[hpuxrox]

to list all users(inactive and active) on a systems,

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

for just active,

who or w

[Brian Lee_4]

Command "who" will show who and what time users log in the system.
Command "last -R" will show user name, logon time and IP address.