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Operating Systems AIX Last user login more than certain days Post 303012888 by rbatte1 on Monday 12th of February 2018 06:43:41 AM
Old 02-12-2018
If you can use last and get a list of those that have been active for your desired period, then you can use something like:-
Code:
cut -f1 -d ":" /etc/passwd | grep -vf active-list

You have to be careful that the active list doesn't match multiple accounts, e.g. a user named bob in the active list might also match bobby and you won't see it in the output.

How are your users defined? Are there likely to be false-positives in this?

perhaps you also need to merge your active list with a list of service accounts, e.g. root or oracle or whatever. You need to be sure that your listed idle users are checked before you do anything too drastic with them.



I hope that this helps,
Robin
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

getlist

GETLIST(1)						      General Commands Manual							GETLIST(1)

NAME

       getlist - get a list from an NNTP server

SYNOPSIS

       getlist [ -h host ] [ list [ pattern [ types ] ] ]

DESCRIPTION

       The getlist program obtains a list from an NNTP server and sends it to standard output.

       The  list  may  be  one	of  active,  active.times,  distributions,  or	newsgroups.   These  values  request  the active(5), active.times,
       /etc/news/distributions, or /var/lib/news/newsgroups files, respectively.

OPTIONS

       -h     If the ``-h'' flag is used, then the program connects to the server on the specified host.  The default is to connect to the  server
	      specified in the inn.conf(5) file.

       If  the list parameter is active, then the pattern and types parameters may be used to limit the output.  When pattern is used, only active
       lines with groups that match according to wildmat(3) are printed.  When types is also given, only active lines that  have  a  fourth  field
       starting with a character found in types are printed.

       For example, the following command will obtain the one-line descriptions of all newsgroups found on UUNET:
	      getlist -h news.uu.net newsgroups

       The following line lists all groups where local postings are permitted, are moderated or aliased:
	      getlist active '*' ym=

       Note that the listing files other than the active file is a common extension to the NNTP protocol and may not be available on all servers.

HISTORY

       Written by Landon Curt Noll <chongo@toad.com> for InterNetNews.

SEE ALSO

       active(5), nnrpd(8), wildmat(3).

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