man pages section 1: User Commands

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Updated: July 2014
 
 

listusers(1)

Name

listusers - list user login information

Synopsis

listusers [-g groups] [-l logins]

Description

Executed without any options, this command lists all user logins sorted by login. The output shows the login ID and the account field value from the system's password database as specified by /etc/nsswitch.conf.

Options

The following options are supported:

–g groups

Lists all user logins belonging to group, sorted by login. Multiple groups can be specified as a comma-separated list.

–l logins

Lists the user login or logins specified by logins, sorted by login. Multiple logins can be specified as a comma-separated list.

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability
system/core-os

See also

nsswitch.conf(4), attributes(5)

Notes

A user login is one that has a UID of 100 or greater.

The –l and –g options can be combined. User logins will only be listed once, even if they belong to more than one of the selected groups.