LSLOGINS
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 2022-05-11
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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
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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
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Separate info about each user with a colon instead of a newline.
-e, --export
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Output data in the format of NAME=VALUE. See also option --shell.
-f, --failed
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Display data about the users' last failed login attempts.
-G, --supp-groups
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Show information about supplementary groups.
-g, --groups=groups
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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
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Display data containing information about the users' last login sessions.
-l, --logins=logins
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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
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Display each piece of information on a separate line.
--noheadings
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Do not print a header line.
--notruncate
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Don't truncate output.
-o, --output list
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Specify which output columns to print. The default list of columns may be extended if list is specified in the format +list.
--output-all
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Output all available columns. --help to get a list of all supported columns.
-p, --pwd
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Display information related to login by password (see also -afL).
-r, --raw
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Raw output (no columnation).
-s, --system-accs
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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
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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
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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
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Display help text and exit.
-V, --version
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Print version and exit.
--wtmp-file path
-
Alternate path for wtmp.
--lastlog path
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Alternate path for lastlog(8).
y-, --shell
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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
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Display the users' security context.
-z, --print0
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Delimit user entries with a nul character, instead of a newline.
EXIT STATUS
0
-
if OK,
1
-
if incorrect arguments specified,
2
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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
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/>.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- EXIT STATUS
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- NOTES
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- HISTORY
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- AUTHORS
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- SEE ALSO
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- AVAILABILITY
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