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I want to display:
All users and
All groups
in my system using command-line.
users and groups commands display users currently logged in, and groups a user belongs to respectively.
How to display a list of all users and all groups by command-line?
You can display with the help of compgen builtin command as follows:
To display all users run following command:
compgen -u
To display all groups run following command:
compgen -g
However you can also display all users by cut -d ":" -f 1 /etc/passwd.
getent passwd / getent group instead of cat'ing the local files (getent should work for non-local accounts as well)
Aug 23, 2014 at 14:31
compgen does seem to work for non-local accounts (at least for LDAP).
cat /etc/passwd | cut -d ...)
Aug 23, 2014 at 14:46
999:999 as user:group, but unfortunately none of the above commands prints them.
Mar 19, 2019 at 11:31
Here we are going to use getent for the detailed the info
We can list the user with the following command:
getent passwd
We can list the group as follows:
getent group
To fetch detail a specific user
getent passwd lalit
Replace the lalit with your user name. Lalit will not be in every system :)
You can read the more into about getent here
