[Sussex] List of Users

[Thomas Adam]

On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 08:18:34PM +0100, Lee W wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> Does anyone know of a way of getting a list of all the users on a
> system though PAM.

getent passwd | awk -F: '$3 > 499 {print $1}'

> I know that I could just list the /etc/passwd file but I'm trying to
> write something that is more generic and will also work for NIS or
> LDAP (etc) lookups. I suppose it is probably unlikely to be there as
> it is probably a security risk.

Well... :)

> I need to globally update the password aging settings (which I can do
> though chage/passwd) on existing accounts.

Why not just call chage(1)?

-- Thomas Adam

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