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listing users?

  • 20-05-2008 3:27pm
    #1
    jackdaw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭


    How do i get a list of users in a bash shell ?


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  • #2
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,568 ✭✭✭ethernet


    Try the commands:
    • w
    • who
    • finger


  • #3
    jackdaw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,788 ✭✭✭jackdaw


    sorry i meant users, not just users logged on at the moment,
    I mlooking to see cron tabs and root has none, so i need to search for
    cron tabs under other users...


  • #4
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    You could list the home folders


  • #5
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    For an authoritative listing of available user accounts the getent command is you friend:
    getent passwd

    It's far better practice to use it (and the programatic getent calls) than the password file as it gets it data from NSS which will include all sources of accounts (incl. files, ldap, nis).

    As you're just interested in crontabs then they're all spooled:
    ls -l /var/spool/cron/crontabs/

    Note that there might also be spool files for 'at' jobs in the cron spool directory too.


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