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Old 11-28-2005, 01:36 PM   #1
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how to filter output from passwd file

I would like to know how can I type a command to filter the output of the passwd file to only get the entries of the user name and userID, the purpose is for security, because only root has an ID of 0,
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awk -F: '{print $1" "$3}' /etc/passwd


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Old 11-28-2005, 04:17 PM   #3
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Thanks for the quick response
hey, thanks for the answer, very helpful
 
  


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