A question arose about how to display users and groups in the same format as the following commands, but sort them in alphabetical order:
lsuser -fa id groups gecos admin account_locked maxage unsuccessful_login_count ALL
lsgroup -fa id admin users ALL
The problem is that with the -f option, each attribute
is displayed on a line by itself, separate from the username.
The answer, as with solving many such problems in UNIX, simply
involves stringing together the right combination of UNIX commands:
lsuser -fa id groups gecos admin account_locked maxage unsuccessful_login_count `lsuser -a ALL | sort | paste -s -d ',' -`
lsgroup -fa id admin users `lsgroup -a ALL | sort | paste -s -d ',' -`
lsuser -a ALL and lsgroup -a ALL
list all of the users or groups, with one on each line.
sort sorts the list in alphabetical order,
and paste -s -d ',' - concatenates it
into one line to create a comma-delimited list, which is passed
as a parameter to the command using back-quotes `...`
(
aka
grave accents).
-fa displays each of the named attributes on a separate line.
The list of attributes in the examples above are some
of the ones that are useful for Sarbanes-Oxley audits.
Last updated Thursday January 4, 2007
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