lslogins(1) — Linux manual page

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LSLOGINS(1)                   User Commands                  LSLOGINS(1)

NAME         top

       lslogins - display information about known users in the system

SYNOPSIS         top

       lslogins [options] [-s|-u[=UID]] [-g groups] [-l logins]
       [username]

DESCRIPTION         top

       Examine the wtmp and btmp logs, /etc/shadow (if necessary) and
       /passwd and output the desired data.

       The optional argument username forces lslogins to print all
       available details about the specified user only. In this case the
       output format is different than in case of -l or -g and unknown
       is username reported as an error.

       The default action is to list info about all the users in the
       system.

OPTIONS         top

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short
       options too.

       -a, --acc-expiration
           Display data about the date of last password change and the
           account expiration date (see shadow(5) for more info).
           (Requires root privileges.)

       --btmp-file path
           Alternate path for btmp.

       -c, --colon-separate
           Separate info about each user with a colon instead of a
           newline.

       -e, --export
           Output data in the format of NAME=VALUE. See also option
           --shell.

       -f, --failed
           Display data about the users' last failed login attempts.

       -G, --supp-groups
           Show information about supplementary groups.

       -g, --groups=groups
           Only show data of users belonging to groups. More than one
           group may be specified; the list has to be comma-separated.
           Unknown group names are ignored.

           Note that the relation between user and group may be
           invisible for the primary group if the user is not explicitly
           specified as group member (e.g., in /etc/group). If the
           command lslogins scans for groups then it uses the groups
           database only, and the user database with primary GID is not
           used at all.

       -L, --last
           Display data containing information about the users' last
           login sessions.

       -l, --logins=logins
           Only show data of users with a login specified in logins
           (user names or user IDs). More than one login may be
           specified; the list has to be comma-separated. Unknown login
           names are ignored.

       -n, --newline
           Display each piece of information on a separate line.

       --noheadings
           Do not print a header line.

       --notruncate
           Don’t truncate output.

       -o, --output list
           Specify which output columns to print. The default list of
           columns may be extended if list is specified in the format
           +list.

       --output-all
           Output all available columns. --help to get a list of all
           supported columns.

       -p, --pwd
           Display information related to login by password (see also
           -afL).

       -r, --raw
           Raw output (no columnation).

       -s, --system-accs
           Show system accounts. These are by default all accounts with
           a UID between 101 and 999 (inclusive), with the exception of
           either nobody or nfsnobody (UID 65534). This hardcoded
           default may be overwritten by parameters SYS_UID_MIN and
           SYS_UID_MAX in the file /etc/login.defs.

       --time-format type
           Display dates in short, full or iso format. The default is
           short, this time format is designed to be space efficient and
           human readable.

       -u, --user-accs
           Show user accounts. These are by default all accounts with
           UID above 1000 (inclusive), with the exception of either
           nobody or nfsnobody (UID 65534). This hardcoded default maybe
           overwritten by parameters UID_MIN and UID_MAX in the file
           /etc/login.defs.

       -h, --help
           Display help text and exit.

       -V, --version
           Print version and exit.

       --wtmp-file path
           Alternate path for wtmp.

       --lastlog path
           Alternate path for lastlog(8).

       -y, --shell
           The column name will be modified to contain only characters
           allowed for shell variable identifiers. This is usable, for
           example, with --export. Note that this feature has been
           automatically enabled for --export in version 2.37, but due
           to compatibility issues, now it’s necessary to request this
           behavior by --shell.

       -Z, --context
           Display the users' security context.

       -z, --print0
           Delimit user entries with a nul character, instead of a
           newline.

EXIT STATUS         top

       0
           if OK,

       1
           if incorrect arguments specified,

       2
           if a serious error occurs (e.g., a corrupt log).

NOTES         top

       The default UID thresholds are read from /etc/login.defs.

   Password status
       Multiple fields describe password status.

       "Password is locked"
           The password is prefixed by '!!', and the user cannot login
           although the password is set or empty. This is common for new
           accounts without a set password.

       "Password not required (empty)"
           The password is not set (hash is missing); this is common for
           locked system accounts. Not requiring a password does not
           mean the user can log-in without a password. It depends on
           the password "lock" status.

       "Login by password disabled"
           'yes' means that there is no valid password. The password
           hash is missing, or the hash method is unknown or contains
           invalid chars.

HISTORY         top

       The lslogins utility is inspired by the logins utility, which
       first appeared in FreeBSD 4.10.

AUTHORS         top

       Ondrej Oprala <ooprala@redhat.com>, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>

SEE ALSO         top

       group(5), passwd(5), shadow(5), utmp(5)

REPORTING BUGS         top

       For bug reports, use the issue tracker at
       https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues.

AVAILABILITY         top

       The lslogins command is part of the util-linux package which can
       be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive
       <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>. This page
       is part of the util-linux (a random collection of Linux
       utilities) project. Information about the project can be found at
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util-linux 2.39.594-1e0ad      2023-09-01                    LSLOGINS(1)

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