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Commands using getent

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getent passwd | cut -d: -f1 | sort
2012-09-12 17:16:54
User: theftf
Functions: cut getent passwd
Tags: sort password users
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Lists all usernames in alphabetical order
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for user in $(getent passwd|cut -f1 -d:); do echo "### Crontabs for $user ####"; crontab -u $user -l; done
2012-07-11 13:06:17
User: harpo
Functions: crontab cut echo getent
Tags: crontab getent
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Show crontabs for all users

added echo "### Crontabs for $user ####"; to make clear whose crontab is listed.

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getent services <<service>>
2011-10-09 14:43:19
User: unixmonkey4200
Functions: getent
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Query well known ports list

Uses the file located in /etc/services

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getent passwd $(whoami) | echo "$(perl -ne '/^([^:]+):[^:]+:[^:]+:[^:]+:([^ ]+) ?([^,]+)?,([^,]*),([^,]*),([^:,]*),?([^:,]*)/ and printf "MECARD:N:$3,$2;ADR:$5;TEL:$4;TEL:$6;EMAIL:$1@"')$HOSTNAME;;" | qrencode -o myqr.png
2011-07-25 12:59:57
User: Strawp
Functions: echo getent passwd
Tags: perl qr qrencode
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Create a QR code image in MECARD format

If your contact information was entered when your user account was created (it gets added to /etc/passwd) then this gets that info and creates a QR code for you automatically

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getent passwd $(whoami) | cut -f 5 -d: | cut -f 1 -d,
2011-01-07 22:43:09
User: binfalse
Functions: cut getent passwd
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Terminal - Prints out, what the users name, notifyed in the gecos field, is
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getent services <port_number>
2010-11-25 08:30:35
User: unefunge
Functions: getent
Tags: getent services
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Find which service was used by which port number
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getent hosts google.com | awk '{print $1}'
2010-11-03 12:02:05
User: depesz
Functions: awk getent
Tags: IP ip address host
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Get just the IP for a hostname

has the benefit of being a bit more cross-platform.

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getent hosts positon.org | cut -d' ' -f1
2010-08-11 09:06:39
User: dooblem
Functions: cut getent
Tags: getent
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Get IP from host

I just wanted a simple DNS request.

Because host and nslookup commands are not on all systems, we use getent instead.

Thanks aulem for that tip.

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getent passwd | awk -F: '($3>600) && ($3<10000) && ($3>maxuid) { maxuid=$3; } END { print maxuid+1; }'
2010-05-25 12:27:33
User: bunam
Functions: awk getent passwd
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Determine next available UID

better with accounts on ldap

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getent shadow | grep '^[^:]\+:!' | cut -d: -f1
2009-12-18 16:24:01
User: hackele
Functions: cut getent grep
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Sometimes you just want a quick way to find out if a certain user account is locked [Linux].
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getent shadow | while IFS=: read a b c; do grep -q '!' <<< "$b" && echo "$a LOCKED" || echo "$a not locked"; done
2009-12-18 15:24:19
User: sputnick
Functions: echo getent grep read
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Sometimes you just want a quick way to find out if a certain user account is locked [Linux].
man 5 shadow

I think it's more reliable, because

passwd -S

dont show "locked" but "L" as second field on my Archlinux for a particular user.

( unixhome alternative ).

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getent passwd|cut -d: -f1|xargs -n1 passwd -e
2009-11-18 19:46:15
User: romulusnr
Functions: cut getent passwd xargs
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force change password for all user

Alternately for those without getent or only want to work on local users it's even easier:

cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd|xargs -n1 passwd -e

Note that not all implementations of passwd support -e. On RH it would be passwd -x0 (?) and on Solaris it would be passwd -f.

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getent [group|hosts|networks|passwd|protocols|services] [keyword]
2009-02-16 15:57:26
User: raphink
Functions: getent
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Get contents from hosts, passwd, groups even if they're in DB/LDAP/other

getent allows to get the contents of several databases in their native file format even if they are not actually in /etc. For example, if you are using a LDAP or a DB to authenticate your users, you won't find their info by catting /etc/passwd, but "getent passwd" will concatenate /etc/passwd to the LDAP/DB.

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