Listing of active users

[hmorrison]

Is there a command to list all the active users in HPUX 11.11?

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

What about who?

# who

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Sundar_7]

You mean the logged in users ?

who -u

the user may be logged in but may not be actively using the terminal. Those terminal sessions will be displayed as "old".

[hmorrison]

Not logged in users. Active users, the users do not have to be logged in to be active.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Perhaps the 'logins' command will meet your specifications.

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60127/logins.1M.html

Regards!

...JRF...

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
awk -F':' '{print $1}' /etc/passwd
will list all defined users known to the server. There seems to be a uncertainty as to what you define as "activ" users.


Please also read:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33 on how to reward any useful answers given to your questions.

[hmorrison]

Thanks for your help, but it seems as if there is no definate command. Active users are those that do not need to be reactivated. The users are able to login, their accounts are not locked for one reason or another, as a result they are active. One could go to SAM and check the status of each individual user, but that takes a while, so I was just wondering if there was a command that could list all active users

[A. Clay Stephenson]

logins -x with a bit of Perl or awk is probably your best bet.

[Peter Godron]

You can also check for locked accounts with:
passwd -sa

[Yogeeraj_1]

hi,

Users can be "active" by connecting using different methods.
e.g. telnet, http, ftp or even through a database connection.

For each method, you have specific commands to be used.

Do you mean "users" created at the OS level?

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Mancboy]

use the last command?
it should tell you who has logged in and with some extra switches, you can tell where they logged in from

[hmorrison]

Thank you all. I had to go to SAM and check the status of each user account, whether it was activated or deactivated. This status lets you know whether a user account has the ability to login to the server or not. If the account is not active, then the user cannot login

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You did it the wimp way. A few lines of a script parsing the logins output would have done the trick.