user list

[joe_91]

ona 11.11 machine, I need to obtain a list of all active users and when their accounts were created.
How can i get this info?

Thanks

Joe

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Joe:

The 'logins' command (see the man pages for more options) is one way to list users.

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

As for any creation timestamp, Unix doesn't track creation. About the best is the coincidence of an unmodifed file's 'mtime' being equivalent to the moment of its creation.

Since directories have their 'mtime' updated as files are added and removed, this isn't a fool-proof indication either. Inference but not proof is as good as it gets when it coms to tracking "creation".

Regards!

...JRF...

[A. Clay Stephenson]

logins -x is a good starting point; however, when an account was first created (or disabled) is not recorded. If you know that data (for example, by looking at the ctime (which is change time, not creation time) on a file in a user's home directory, you only know the creation time by accident. UNIX has no concept of the creation time of a file.

If you want to know these data (and it's becomingly increasingly common under security audit's) then you must create a database that stores the info and adopt strict procedures that always add and disable users in scripts thats update this database. The bad news is that this needed to be thought of on the front end.

[inventsekar_1]

"to obtain a list of all active users"

#cut -d : -f 1,2 /etc/passwd

will give you the username and encrypted passwd. if the user is not active, that will be *. so u can find out the list of active users.

when their created is not availble. from the above responses, u can find that.

[Marc Ahrendt]

another option is to run "ls -last" in each $HOME of your users ...not accurate (as explained earlier) but possibly your best approximation, another option is looking at the output of "last"

i manually track all accounts added and removed on my systems to get an accurate time of when accessed was given and/or taken away

[siva baskaran]

hi,

that is simple way
list out all the users list

use logins cmd
user whodo cmd to active users list
use id username ( id root) to find details or users

do need yet more?

thanks
siva

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom joe,

I like passwd -sa

Though this may only work on trusted systems. I know it does not work on 11.00 systems.

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