Listing users

(Maybe I'm just blind but...)

Is there a way to list -all- users on a *nix box (BSD in particular) besides listing the passwd file?
(BTW, I don't mean users logged in as with who or w...)

TIA

Ammo

you mean all the possible logins? The only way is through the passwd file. Or the shadow file....

Most users also have there own directory in the /home/ directory, but that won't give you all possible logins, but it will give you most of the users that actually do login.

1: cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{ if ($3 >= 100) { print $1 } }' ... this shows you all users that aren't system accounts (system generally is below 25 for the UID).

2: If you run a database, check your database for users. Users in a db don't have to have a login, especially if they can connect through JDBC or ODBC-oriented applications (I think that's right).

A common mistake to 'lock out' a user was to do something like this:

Code:

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#!/bin/sh

echo "You've been locked out. Deal."

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Make this executable and put it as the user's shell. Problem is, it only works with telnet. FTP (back in the day) wouldn't check the shell. Now, ftp daemons check the shell of the user and sometimes, if it's not registered in /etc/shells or something similar, it won't let you in.