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11-22-2007

gus2000

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I love one-line commands.

Code:

(last | awk '{print$1}'; awk -F: '{print$1}' /etc/passwd) | sort | uniq -u

The command "uniq -u" show only unrepeated lines, which would be "users in passwd but NOT in wtmp".