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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] [username]

DESCRIPTION
       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
       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
       0
           if OK,

       1
           if incorrect arguments specified,

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

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

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

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

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

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

AVAILABILITY
       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/>.

util-linux 2.38.1                 2022-05-11                       LSLOGINS(1)

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