List of All user accounts from command line
 

Hello,
Is there a way of listing all the users of a system from the command line? I cannot find anything that will list users even if they are not logged in, I would like to sort them by uid and stuff if possible. The particular server is running FC5 but it would be good if it was general.

Cheers,
Phil

cat /etc/passwd
or
getent passwd

Hello,
Thank you, just what I needed.

Cheers,
Phil

The /etc/passwd file will also contain system users. You could filter out the users how don't have a home directory.

sudo cat /etc/passwd | grep '/home'

You could then trim this down even further to only recieve each username instead of the whole line.