Before You Begin
To use the logins command, you must become an administrator who is assigned either the User Management or the User Security rights profile. By default, the root role has this authorization. For more information, see Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.2 .
# logins -x -l username
Displays an extended set of login status information.
Displays the login status for the specified user. The variable username is a user's login name. Multiple login names are separated by commas.
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 naming service. For more information, see the logins (1M) man page.
In the following example, the login status for the user jdoe is displayed.
# logins -x -l jdoe jdoe 500 staff 10 Jaylee Jaye Doe /home/jdoe /bin/bash PS 010103 10 7 -1
Identifies the user's login name.
Identifies the user ID (UID).
Identifies the user's primary group.
Identifies the group ID (GID).
Identifies the comment.
Identifies the user's home directory.
Identifies the login shell.
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