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User creation date.

 
Julian ITSec
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‎03-20-2006 09:15 AM

‎03-20-2006 09:15 AM

User creation date.

Hi All,

Does HP-UX keep records of when a users were created? If so what command will get me this information?

Thanks in Advance.
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A. Clay Stephenson
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‎03-20-2006 09:20 AM

‎03-20-2006 09:20 AM

Re: User creation date.

No. Unless you script this yourself then there is no entry in the TCB database for this data --- oh, and don't listen to any suggestions about timestamps on files because UNIX does not have a file creation timestamp either.

The way to do this is to create a user creation script and it logs this data.

You can see what data a trusted system keeps by doing a 'man prpwd'.
If it ain't broke, I can fix that.
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Jeff_Traigle
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‎03-20-2006 09:21 AM

‎03-20-2006 09:21 AM

Re: User creation date.

Maybe if auditing is turned on in a trusted system. Haven't used auditing so not sure about how you would track it down if that's even a possibility. Otherwise, no easy, reliable way in the system itself to find out.
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Jeff Traigle
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Ivan Ferreira
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‎03-20-2006 09:34 AM

‎03-20-2006 09:34 AM

Re: User creation date.

Under normal circunstances, the oldest file on the home directory for the user, is a good candidate to be the creation date of the user.
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