How to Display a User's Login Status

1. Assume the Primary Administrator role, or become superuser.

   The Primary Administrator role includes the Primary Administrator profile. To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Chapter 2, Working With the Solaris Management Console (Tasks), in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.

2. Display a user's login status by using the logins command.

   # logins -x -l username

   -x

   Displays an extended set of login status information.

   -l username

   Displays the login status for the specified user. The variable username is a user's login name. Multiple login names must be specified in a comma-separated list.

   The logins command uses the appropriate password database to obtain a user's login status. The database can be the local /etc/passwd file, or a password database for the name service. For more information, see the logins(1M) man page.

Example 3–1 Displaying a User's Login Status

In the following example, the login status for the user rimmer is displayed.

# logins -x -l rimmer
rimmer       500     staff           10   Annalee J. Rimmer
                     /export/home/rimmer
                     /bin/sh
                     PS 010103 10 7 -1

rimmer

Identifies the user's login name.

500

Identifies the user ID (UID).

staff

Identifies the user's primary group.

10

Identifies the group ID (GID).

Annalee J. Rimmer

Identifies the comment.

/export/home/rimmer

Identifies the user's home directory.

/bin/sh

Identifies the login shell.

PS 010170 10 7 -1

Specifies the password aging information:

• Last date that the password was changed

• Number of days that are required between changes

• Number of days before a change is required

• Warning period