Shows users and 'virtual users' on your a unix-type system

ps -eo user | sort -u

Shows a list of users that currently running processes are executing as. YMMV regarding ps and it's many variants. For example, you might need: ps -axgu | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort -u

Sample Output

USER
_coreaudiod
_locationd
_lp     
_mdnsresponder
_spotlight
_usbmuxd
_windowserver
_www    
daemon  
dfaulkner    
root

By: dfaulkner

2010-07-07 12:28:44

ps sort sort sorting ps users processes

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Shows users and 'virtual users' on your a unix-type system
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd | sort

dog · 2010-07-07 12:12:02 7
Shows users and 'virtual users' on your a unix-type system
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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ps -axgu | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort -u

dfaulkner · 2010-07-07 12:29:46 6
Shows users and 'virtual users' on your a unix-type system

Most systems (at least my macbook) have system users defined, such as _www and using "users" for example will not list them. This command allows you to see who the 'virtual' users are on your system. Show Sample Output
This is sample output - yours may be different.
```
USER
_mdnsresponder
_mysql
_postfix
_spotlight
_usbmuxd
_windowserver
_www
couchdb
daemon
lloyd
root
```
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sudo lsof|sed 's/ */ /g'|cut -f3 -d' '|sort -u

binaryten · 2010-07-07 08:20:28 9

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