[PLUG] Re: Listing Linux Users

[Robby Russell]

<?echo Carla Schroder managed to take the time to type out the following:

> On Sunday 06 April 2003 6:03 pm, Cooper Stevenson wrote:
>> This assumes that the user has a directory in /home but you can adapt
>> this command to suit your environment:
>>
>>   cat /etc/passwd | grep /home | awk -F : '{ print $1 }'
>>
>>
>> Cooper Stevenson
>> MWVLUG Coordinator
>> Em: cooper at cooper.stevenson.name
>> Www: http://www.mwvlug.org
>
> Or what about selection by UID_MIN?  On my system, the human accounts are
> >=
> 1000. I haven't been able to make it work, though... yet...
>
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I have a simple script in my cron to get add all the users on my system to
a file that postfix uses for an alias. In my case, the UIDs are 500+


#/bin/sh
/usr/bin/awk -F: '$3 > 500 { print $1 }' /etc/passwd > /etc/mail/allusers



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