[ILUG] User tool

Paul Kelly longword at esatclear.ie
Wed Dec 6 14:21:42 GMT 2000


Joshua Beining wrote:

> Does anyone know of a tool for linux were you can list the users who have
> access to a box

Define 'have access'.

> (without looking in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow and not
> having root access)?

What's wrong with /etc/passwd? That's got a complete list in a fixed 
machine-readable format, open to all, and it even lists the shells that 
each user has so you can have a fair guess at whether they can login or not.

The next best I can think of is 'ls /home' but that's a pretty poor 
alternative.

Paul.





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