List of All user accounts from command line

sniff · 07-05-2006, 02:31 PM

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

acid_kewpie · 07-05-2006, 02:33 PM

cat /etc/passwd
or
getent passwd

sniff · 07-09-2006, 04:11 AM

Hello,
Thank you, just what I needed.

Cheers,
Phil

jschiwal · 07-09-2006, 04:29 AM

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'

hepburnenthorpe · 07-09-2006, 11:02 AM

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

Code:

sudo cat /etc/passwd | grep '/home' | cut -d : -f 1