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Post January 20th, 2009, 4:13 am

Hi all,

I am new to this forum.

I have few questions that i would like to ask you.

How to find out existing users in linux?

Operating system -- Red hat linux

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Williams
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Post January 20th, 2009, 4:13 am

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Post January 20th, 2009, 4:58 am

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linu ... files.html

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The /etc/passwd file is world-readable, and contains a list of users, each on a separate line. On each line is a seven field, colon delimited list which contains the following information...


So,

Code: [ Select ]
cat /etc/passwd
Strong with this one, the sudo is.
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Post January 20th, 2009, 7:34 am

Thanks for the information and providing such useful link on it..

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Post January 20th, 2009, 9:24 am

I cannot send lunch to you .Instead, i am inviting you for lunch if you wish to come.:)


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William

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