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)
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