To know when the user account has been created

[mparasur]

Hi All,

I would like to know when the user account has been created in a hp-ux machine. Is it possible to get the time and date of when the user account has been created.

[Pete Randall]

I don't believe this is stored anywhere. You can take a look at the user's home directory and the files within it. There are usually some files that never get used and the dates on those files should tell you when the user was created.


Pete

[sreekanthtm]

Hi,

I think there is database maintained in HPUX for user account creation timestamp. But you you can check the time stamp of the files created at the time of user creation. ie; Home directory of that user or any other related file.

Rgds
Sreekanth

[Frank de Vries]

Hi,

You can keep a tag on the password file to
see when a change was made and check the difference with a snapshot of the previous version of the password file.

should be fairly easy to script,
conceptually like this:

ls -l passwd | cut timestamp
if timestamp = prevtimstampt
then
do nothing
else
diff passwd passwd.snapshot
fi

Run in cron every minute.

[sreekanthtm]

Srry..... There is no database.

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi,

The answer depends on the sysadm style. If new users are created by SAM, you can look for these items in samlog, if there is a script for users creation, read it logfile, else take a look on the oldest file in users' directories.
I create users by a script and put creation date into /etc/passwd, together with the user's owner name and email. Also .forward file is created with the email in it.

HTH