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LSLOGINS
Section: User Commands (1) Updated: April 2014 Index
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NAME
lslogins - display information about known users in the system
SYNOPSIS
lslogins
[options]
[ -s| -u[ =UID]]
[ -g groups]
[ -l logins]
DESCRIPTION
Examine the wtmp and btmp logs, /etc/shadow (if necessary) and /etc/passwd
and output the desired data.
The default action is to list info about all the users in the system.
OPTIONS
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
- -a, --acc-expiration
-
Display data about the date of last password change and the account expiration
date (see shadow(5) for more info). (Requires root privileges.)
- --btmp-file path
-
Alternate path for btmp.
- -c, --colon-separate
-
Separate info about each user with a colon instead of a newline.
- -e, --export
-
Output data in the format of NAME=VALUE.
- -f, --failed
-
Display data about the users' last failed login attempts.
- -G, --supp-groups
-
Show information about groups.
- -g, --groups=groups
-
Only show data of users belonging to groups. More than one group
may be specified; the list has to be comma-separated.
- -h, --help
-
Display help information and exit.
- -L, --last
-
Display data containing information about the users' last login sessions.
- -l, --logins=logins
-
Only show data of users with a login specified in logins (user names or user
IDS). More than one login may be specified; the list has to be comma-separated.
- -n, --newline
-
Display each piece of information on a separate line.
- --noheadings
-
Do not print a header line.
- --notruncate
-
Don't truncate output.
- -o, --output list
-
Specify which output columns to print. Use
--help
to get a list of all supported columns.
- -p, --pwd
-
Display information related to login by password (see also -afL).
- -r
, --raw-
Raw output (no columnation).
- -s, --system-accs
-
Show system accounts. These are by default all accounts with a UID below 1000
(non-inclusive), with the exception of either nobody or nfsnobody (UID 65534).
This hardcoded default maybe overwritten by parameters SYS_UID_MIN and SYS_UID_MAX in
the file /etc/login.defs.
- --time-format type
-
Display dates in short, full or iso format. The default is short, this time
format is designed to be space efficient and human readable.
- -u, --user-accs
-
Show user accounts. These are by default all accounts with UID above 1000
(inclusive), with the exception of either nobody or nfsnobody (UID 65534).
This hardcoded default maybe overwritten by parameters UID_MIN and UID_MAX in
the file /etc/login.defs.
- -V, --version
-
Display version information and exit.
- --wtmp-file path
-
Alternate path for wtmp.
- -Z, --context
-
Display the users' security context.
- -z, --print0
-
Delimit user entries with a nul character, instead of a newline.
NOTES
The default UID thresholds are read from /etc/login.defs.
EXIT STATUS
- 0
-
if OK,
- 1
-
if incorrect arguments specified,
- 2
-
if a serious error occurs (e.g. a corrupt log).
SEE ALSO
group(5), passwd(5), shadow(5), utmp(5)
HISTORY
The lslogins utility is inspired by the logins utility, which first appeared in FreeBSD 4.10.
AUTHORS
Ondrej Oprala
Karel Zak
AVAILABILITY
The lslogins command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
Linux Kernel Archive
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- NOTES
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- EXIT STATUS
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- SEE ALSO
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- HISTORY
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- AUTHORS
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- AVAILABILITY
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