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Old 01-04-2011
How to list shell of account?
Hello. I have been trying to figure out something very simple that I know I've done before; which is list the shell of a specific account. In this case it is the account: "news". I know how to change the shell using chsh, just not list it. I want output like "/bin/sh" only. Any thoughts or ideas are appreciated, thanks.
# 2  
Old 01-04-2011
You can look at the /etc/passwd file
If you
Code:
grep "news" </etc/passwd

you will see the details for account news


See also -->
https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...ent-shell.html
# 3  
Old 01-04-2011
That's sort of what I want...but I need the last part of it by itself, and I don't think awk will work here because there are no spaces. There's no way to do kind of like this?

Code:
echo $SHELL

Only instead of giving me my current shell, have it give me any account I specify?
# 4  
Old 01-04-2011
One way to look up the login shell of the account "news":

Code:
awk -F: '{if ($1==name) {print $7; exit}}' name=news /etc/passwd

# 5  
Old 01-04-2011
finger
If it's installed, try using "finger":

[sandholm@sys1-lnx ~]$ finger news
Login: news Name: news
Directory: /etc/news Shell: /bin/sh
Never logged in.
No mail.
No Plan.
[sandholm@sys1-lnx ~]$
# 6  
Old 01-04-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by methyl
One way to look up the login shell of the account "news":

Code:
awk -F: '{if ($1==name) {print $7; exit}}' name=news /etc/passwd

This works perfectly, thanks!
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