user account

[Mridul Dutta]

Hi friend ,


How to check the number of user account on a unix system ?

Mridul

[RAC_1]

/usr/sbin/logins -u -> need root privelages.
who -u -> current logins.
cat /etc/passwd -> system and user logins.

There might be nis/ldap users. You will have to check it on nis/ldap server.

[AwadheshPandey]

Every Unix System Has a /etc/passwd file in which each line shows a user entry. This is easy to count these lines. Some users are Deactivated, * entry in passwd field shows that this account is disabled.

Awadhesh

[Sivakumar TS]

Dear Mridul,

To check the no of users logged in

#who -q

To check the no of user accounts in a server

#cat /etc/passwd | wc -l

With REgards,

Siva.

[Muthukumar_5]

you can check with /etc/passwd file. Execute logins or sam to get user details more. (super user power is needed)

-Muthu

[shridhar_1]

hi

try logins

shri

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Mridul,

You can use SAM to get the number of user accounts in a HP-UX server, or you can use "logins" to find it out, but it will display all NIS accounts if it is configured as primary
in /etc/nsswitch.conf

-Arun

[MarkSyder]

I'm interpreting this question differently from everyone else, so I'll give you my answer in case I'm right.

My understanding is that you want to know the user number of an individual user. Try:

grep username /etc/passwd

where username is the id of the user. The third field is the user number.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Tvs]

Hi,

you can try

#logins

#logins -s ( to findout the system users)

#logins -u ( to findout the normal user)
regards
tvs

[Cem Tugrul]

Hi Mridul,

if i did not misunderstand you ,you wanted
to know "number" of user?
Then;
logins|wc -l
cat -n /etc7passwd
listusers|wc -l

Good Luck,

Pls do not forget to submit points!!!
:-)

[Cem Tugrul]

cat -n /etc/passwd

[Arturo Galbiati]

This command counts the number of users in /etc/passwd not disabled (* in password field 2nd field):

awk -F: '$2!="*" {i++};END {print i}' /etc/passwd

HTH,
Art

[Muthukumar_5]

Do you want to check real user accounts or including samba, mysql,iwww and owww too?

Example:

# logins -u
smbnull 101 smbnull 101 DO NOT USE OR DELETE - needed by Samba
mysql 102 mysql 102
iwww 103 other 1
owww 104 other 1
muthu 105 users 20

If you want to count all here then simply as,

# logins -u | wc -l

To get real user accounts like muthu then you've to have UID information rage to give the count on that.

-Muthu