On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 01:26:16PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:52:22AM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote:
> >> readable output
> >> lsuser has a glop of output that it is difficult to find
> >> anything in.
> >
> >You can specify what attributes you want to show via --attr.
>
> When you remember the attribute name. The default should be easily
lsuser --help will kindly provide you with this information...
> readable. There should also be a way for a program or shell script to
> get the information easily.
lsuser -f <username>
shows things in stanza form, that is:
euwe:~# lsuser -f tao
tao:
id=1000
locked=no
pgrp=tao
groups=dialout,cdrom,floppy,audio,src,media
admgroups=
home=/home/tao
shell=/bin/bash
gecos=David Weinehall,,,
and
lsuser -c <username>
shows things colon-separated:
euwe:~# lsuser -f tao
#name:locked:id:pgrp:groups:admgroups:home:shell:gecos
tao:no:1000:tao:dialout,cdrom,floppy,audio,src,media::/home/tao:/bin/bash:David
Weinehall,,,
The stanza format should be easy enough to read. I prefer to keep the
default behaviour as it is, though. Both stanza-format and the
colon-separated list should be pretty easy to parse.
> >> things being updated by login should be in a database.
> >
> >Care to provide examples?
>
> Last login date/time and location, failed login date/time and
> location. This should be able to be updated without one user's update
Not stored in /etc/passwd; this information is stored in
/var/log/lastlog and /var/log/faillog...
> locking out another login. Aix's /etc/security is an exmple of how
> not to do it. It should be possible to make /etc/passwd and
> /etc/shadow immutable or stored on read-only media.
This can be tricky if you want to allow your users to change their
passwords, gecos-information, or shell, or allow yourself to change
expiry-information and to lock out users... The same goes for
group-administration.
But if you don't desire these things, there shouldn't be any problem.
BTW: I did a lot of passwd-ng work this weekend; wrote more
manual-pages, fixed tons of bugs, and began adding a few more desirable
features.
/David
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