You can use the getent command

$ getent passwd

That will return all local users as well as users from NIS or LDAP if nsswitch.conf is configured for those.

Jamie

On Fri, 13 May 2005, Lee W wrote:

Hey All,

Does anyone know of a way of getting a list of all the users on a system though PAM.

I know that I could just list the /etc/passwd file but I'm trying to write something that is more generic and will also work for NIS or LDAP (etc) lookups. I suppose it is probably unlikely to be there as it is probably a security risk.

I need to globally update the password aging settings (which I can do though chage/passwd) on existing accounts.

Thanks in advance

Regards

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