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Old 10-13-2005
User Accounts
Hi,
I was wondering if someone could tell me how to display a list of all existing user accounts on the system, not neccesarily looged in. Thanks in advance
Stephen
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Old 10-13-2005
type who at command prompt. hope this helps. Smilie
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Old 10-13-2005
That just tells me whos currently logged in, I need to know all the users accounts that exist, logged in or not.
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Old 10-13-2005
awk -F: '{print $1}' /etc/passwd

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ZB
 
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