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LSLOGINS(1)                                         User Commands                                         LSLOGINS(1)



NAME
       lslogins - display information about known users in the system

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

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

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

OPTIONS
       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.

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

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

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

       -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.

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

       --noheadings
              Do not print a header line.

       --notruncate
              Don't truncate output.

              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 excep‐
              tion 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.

       -V, --version
              Display version information and exit.

       --wtmp-file path
              Alternate path for wtmp.

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

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


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


EXIT STATUS
       0      if OK,

       1      if incorrect arguments specified,

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

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

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

AUTHORS
       Ondrej Oprala ⟨[email protected]⟩
       Karel Zak ⟨[email protected]⟩


AVAILABILITY
       The  lslogins  command  is  part  of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive ⟨ftp://
       ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/⟩.



util-linux                                            April 2014                                          LSLOGINS(1)