getusers

getusers

Name

getusers - lists users in passwd with login shells

Synopsis

getusers

Description

getusers lists all user in the passwd with a login shell.

A login shell is each program listed in the /etc/shells files. Users with shell nologin and false are never listed. Typical nologin and false are not in “shells”. But also if these programs are in the “shells” the user with this shells will be not listed.

getusers lists the user names to stdout.

Example

Run the function. There are no command line arguments.

$ getusers

Files

The function reads

• the /etc/passwd file through the tool getent,
• the /etc/shells file direct.