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Old 04-24-2012
List system users and..
Hello i need fast help... script which will list only human users from /etc/passwd and find out if they have something in home. Thanks
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Old 04-24-2012
What Operating System and version do you have and what Shell do you use?

Please define "human users". It will vary from site-to-site.

Please define "have something in home". Phrase is meaningless.

Is this a dynamic enquiry about people currently using the system or a static enquiry about every possible user of the system.
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Old 04-24-2012
I dont know... im newbie

I need to list users from /etc/passwd and list if they have any directory in home

ex.

nobody: Not permitted to read
melian: Not permited to read
Another: Not permitted to read
Someone: Empty home
Noone: Empty home
...

with for cycle
Last edited by mentoscz; 04-24-2012 at 09:07 AM..
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Old 04-24-2012
Looks very much like unix introduction classwork to me...
In your last post you give clues on where to start :
Quote:
directory in home
Though not 100% but you could believe that users have a users directory in a common home directory... standards would be /home, /export/home (solaris) etc...
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Old 04-24-2012
well i dont know how to explain it. Im not native english speaker


I have to use for cycle for this.
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Old 04-24-2012
Please post the output from these commands, blotting the machine name with X's.

Code:
uname -a

echo "${SHELL}"

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Old 04-24-2012
Linux drak 2.6.32-40-386 #87-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 5 23:03:22 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux


I need to make a script which will list human users ( not computer ones ) from /etc/passwd and find out if their home directory is empty or not.
Last edited by methyl; 04-24-2012 at 09:56 AM..
 
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