Ubuntu Server 8: Managing users & groups: How to?

[Charlie Kravetz]

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On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 21:51:47 -0500
"Robert Dailey" <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:03 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > On 07/01/2008 03:44 PM, Robert Dailey wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks everyone, this has been extremely helpful.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > You might also find these helpful:
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/index.html
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/user-management.html
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Servers
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training
> > [this last is for the desktop course, but you might want to book mark it
> > and see if they eventually add a server course later on - warning: the
> > large pdf's are 72.5Mb]
> 
> 
> One last question that I just thought of:
> 
> I know to add users, you use adduser.
> I know to delete users, you use deluser.
> 
> However, how can I list the current users on the system, much like "ls -lh"?
> Right now the only way I can view users on my system is to do "vim
> /etc/passwd", however I don't feel safe doing this... I would prefer a
> read-only method if it is available.
> 
pager /etc/passwd
It lets you scroll the listing up and down with PageUp, PageDn and arrow
keys, q to quit.

Good Luck,
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Charlie Kravetz 
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