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Old 04-18-2010, 12:00 PM   #16
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Alternative.....

How about just "less /etc/passwd"?
 
Old 10-13-2010, 10:14 AM   #17
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if someone's looking at this thread for an answer to a good way to reverse look up user per UID, I like:
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getent passwd | awk -F: '$3=='$SOME_USER_ID'{print $1}'
more reliable than using /etc/passwd, especially when user dirs are mounted from elsewhere
hope it helps someone
 
  


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