user uid

[Chern Jian Leaw]

HI
Is there a way in which the id command could be specified to display the uid of any other users, besides only displaying the uid of the current user which had invoked the following ?:
$id

I'm running $id as root, but whenever I tried displaying the uid of other users, it would only display the uid of the current user, i.e myself.

[Animesh Chakraborty]

Hi
Try
#id user
id followed by user name,it will display the user id of that perticular user.
Hope that is what you are looking for.

[Deepak Extross · Accepted solution]

id
should work.

Else, try
grep /etc/passwd
The third field is the user-id.

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

You must state the userid name or number as well in the same argument.

# id tully
uid=105(tully) gid=20(users) groups=1(staff)

Have a look at the man page for 'id' for further options.

Cheers
~Michael

[T G Manikandan]

Hello,
If you are working as super-user
you can use the
#logins
command to find out all the usernames,their groups,uid,gid
Also you can use
cat /etc/passwd|awk -F ":" '{print $1,$3}'
(to have the username and uid's).

THanks

[John Strang]

If you want more information about a user you can run
finger
But unfortunately this does not display the uid

John