HOW TO VIEW SYSTEM USERS IN LINUX

Published: 12 August 2023
on channel: Darren's Tech Tutorials
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A fundamental part of system administration is configuring and managing users and groups. Part of this task involves monitoring the log in capabilities of all system entities.

In this video you will see the command to see a list of all users in the passwd file.

cat /etc/passwd

Next you will see how to shorted that and just see the users.

cut -d : -f 1 /etc/passwd

You will also see how to see all groups

cat /etc/groups

and then see how to get a list of groups only

cut -d : -f 1 /etc/group

This tutorial was filmed on Centos but it should work for all Linux versions such as Ubuntu


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