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To: Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@izrsolutions.com>,
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Subject: Re: number of users
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...or if you just want a summary of how many users there are allowed on the
system, I have a script.

At 07:24 PM 1.25.2002 +0000, Mark Drayton wrote:
>Lance Bland (lbland@vvi.com) wrote:
>
>[..snip..]
>
>> If you just want to know how many are logged in then "finger" might
>> work.  or you might want to use "last", or "ac -p"
>
>Original poster: these methods will show how many users are currently
>logged in. The following will tell you have many user accounts you have
>with a UID > 1000 (ie non-system accounts):
>
>grep -v '^#' /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{ if ($3 > 1000) print $0 }' | wc -l
>
>eg:
>
>=== mark@mir:~$ grep -v '^#' /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{ if ($3 > 1000) print
$0 }' | wc -l
>       5
>
>Cheers,
>
>-- 
>
>Mark Drayton
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Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Server Admin

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